Call for proposals
“Horizon
2020 – Excellence Science – Future and Emerging Technologies, Call:
“FET Proactive – High Performance Computing” - H2020-FETHPC-2017
Objective and description
A
new call for proposals has been published under the Horizon 2020
Programme within the pillar “Excellence Science”, under the priority
Future and Emerging Technologies, within the call for proposals “FET
PROACTIVE – HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING” call identifier
H2020-FETHPC-2017.
The
FET-Proactive call on HPC aims at the next steps for leveraging the
existing European strengths for building the next generation of extreme
performance computing and taking advantage of the new opportunities
created from the transition from peta to exascale computing. The
ultimate goal is to achieve world-class extreme scale computing
capabilities in platforms, technologies and applications.
The
call complements the other building blocks under the e-Infrastructures
and LEIT-ICT parts of Horizon 2020 of the European HPC strategy. The
implementation of this HPC strategy in Horizon 2020 combines three
elements:
(a) developing the next generation of HPC towards exascale;
(b) providing access to the best supercomputing facilities and services; and
(c) achieving excellence in HPC applications.
The call for proposals refers to the following topics:
- FETHPC-02-2017: Transition to Exascale Computing
The
aim of the call is to take advantage of the full capabilities of
exascale computing, in particular through high-productivity programming
environments, system software and management, exascale I/O and storage
in the presence of multiple tiers of data storage, supercomputing for
extreme data and emerging HPC use modes, mathematics and algorithms for
extreme scale HPC systems for existing or visionary applications,
including data-intensive and extreme data applications in scientific
areas such as physics, chemistry, biology, life sciences, materials,
climate, geosciences, etc.
Proposals should address one of the following subtopics:
a) High productivity programming environments for exascale
b) Exascale system software and management
c) Exascale I/O and storage in the presence of multiple tiers of data storage
d) Supercomputing for Extreme Data and emerging HPC use modes
e) Mathematics and algorithms for extreme scale HPC systems and applications working with extreme data
Proposals should address a single of the two following subtopics:
a) Coordination of the Exascale HPC strategy and International Collaboration
b) Excellence in Exascale Computing Systems
Eligible applicants
- Transition to Exascale Computing:
The topic refers to Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) and thus eligible are consortia of at least three legal entities.
Each of the three must be established in a different EU Member State or
Horizon 2020 associated country. All three legal entities must be
independent of each other.
- Exascale HPC ecosystem development:
The topic refers to Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) and thus eligible can be at least one legal entity established in an EU Member State or Horizon 2020 associated country.
Budget and duration
The indicative total budget for the topic “Transition to Exascale Computing” - FETHPC-02-2017 is 40 million EUR. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between EUR 2 and 4 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.
Funding rate: 100%
The indicative total budget for the topic “Exascale HPC ecosystem development” - FETHPC-03-2017 is 4 million EUR. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution between EUR 1 and 2 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.
Funding rate: 100%
Deadline for proposals’ submission
The deadline of the topic is 26 September 2017, 17:00 (Brussels local time).
Further information
Please find attached the call documents. For the proposal standard template, please visit the link below.
More information:
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h2020-fethpc-2016-2017.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020-FETHPC-2016-2017/1/1/1/default-group&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0/default-group&callStatus/t/Open/1/1/0/default-group&callStatus/t/Closed/0/1/0/default-group&+identifier/desc
Kind regards,
Flora
Flora Stavropoulou
Intern
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