17 Amendments of Nicola DANTI related to 2020/0260(NLE)
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The Communication from the Commission of 19 February 2020 entitled ‘Shaping Europe’s digital future’ presents Europe’s digital strategy and focuses on few key objectives to ensure that digital solutions help Europe to pursue its own way towards a digital transformation that works for the benefit of people. Among the key actions it proposes is to invest in building and deploying cutting-edge joint digital capacities, including in supercomputing and quantum technologies, and to expand Europe’s supercomputing capacity to develop innovative solutions for medicine, transport and the environmentacross all economic sectors, such as industrial activities, manufacturing, cybersecurity, health and medicine, transport and sustainable mobility, and environment and climate change.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Global events such as the COVID- 19 pandemic have shown the importance of investing in High Performance Computing and health-related modelling platforms and tools, as they are playing a key role in the fight against the pandemic, often in combination with other digital technologies such as big data and, artificial intelligence and computer modelling and simulation. High Performance Computing is being used to accelerate the identification and production of treatments, to predict the virus’ spread, to help plan the distribution of medical supplies and resources, and to simulate post-epidemic exit measures in order to evaluate different scenarios. High Performance Computing modelling platforms and tools are critical tools for the current and future pandemics, and they will play a key role in health and personalised medicine.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) In order to equip the Union with the computing performance needed to maintain its research and industrial capacities at a leading edge, the Member States investment in High Performance Computing and quantum computing should be coordinated and the industrial and market take-up of High Performance Computing and quantum computing technologies be reinforced both in the public and private sectors. The Union should increase its effectiveness in turning the technology developments into demand- oriented and application-driven European High Performance Computing and quantum computing systems of the highest quality, establishing an effective link between technology supply, co-design with users, and a joint procurement of world- class systems, and creating a world-class ecosystem in High Performance Computing and quantum computing technologies and applications. At the same time, the Union should provide an opportunity for its supply industry to leverage on such investments, leading to their uptake in large-scale and emerging application fields such as personalised medicine, climate change, connected and automated driving or other lead markets that are underpinned by artificial intelligence, blockchain technologies, computer modelling and simulation, edge computing or more broadly by the digitalisation of the European industry.
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25 a (new)
Recital 25 a (new)
(25 a) The Joint Undertaking should like-wise consider start-ups in their R&D phase wherever SMEs are mentioned, as the HPC platforms are currently not inclusive enough. The access barriers - such as the cost of service fees, heavy administration and lack of awareness - should be significantly reduced in order to have a more open-access and distributed service.
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) The Joint Undertaking should contribute to reducing the specific skills gap across the Union by engaging in awareness raising measures and assisting in the building of new knowledge and human capital, including by building competences in procurements made in the framework of this Regulation. This should all be part of a coordinated effort on outreach to inform potential users on the possibilities that HPC and quantum computing can offer.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26 a) The Joint Undertaking should encourage the development of specific university titles and educational programmes for quantum computing, given the increasing need for experts that this field is going to have, and in order to avoid creating a 'quantum bottleneck'. In this regard, the Joint Undertaking must pay special attention to gender perspective and adopt measures to promote gender balance in this field.
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
Recital 30
(30) In order to achieve its objectives to design, develop and use the most innovative technologies in High Performance Computing and quantum computing, the Joint Undertaking should provide financial support in particular in the form of grants and procurement following open, transparent and competitive calls for proposals and calls for tenders based on annual work programmes. Such financial support should be targeted in particular at proven market failures that prevent the development of the programme concerned, should not crowd- out private investments and should have an incentive effect in that it changes the behaviour of the recipient.
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) The Joint Undertaking should hyper-connect all the supercomputers and data infrastructures it will own or co-own with state-of-the-art networking technologies, making them widely accessible across the Union, especially SMEs, start-ups in R&D phase and researchers, and should interconnect and federate its supercomputing and quantum computing data infrastructure, as well as national, regional and other computing infrastructures with a common platform. The Joint Undertaking should also ensure the interconnection of the federated, secure supercomputing, and quantum computing service and data infrastructures with the common European data spaces, European Open Science Cloud, GAIA-X, and federated, secure cloud infrastructures announced in the Communication from the Commission of 19 February 2020 on ‘A European Strategy for Data’, for seamless service provisioning to a wide range of public and private users across Europe.
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) Horizon Europe and the Digital Europe Programme should respectively contribute to the closing of the research and innovation divide within the Union and to deploying wide-range supercomputing capabilities by promoting synergies with the European Structural and Investments Funds (ESIF) and the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Therefore, the Joint Undertaking should seek to develop close interactions with the ESIF and the RRF, which can specifically help to strengthen local, regional and national research and innovation capabilities.
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 50
Recital 50
(50) To foster an innovative and, competitive, and resilient European High Performance Computing and quantum computing ecosystem of recognised excellence, the Joint Undertaking should make appropriate use of the procurement and grant instruments, including joint procurement, pre-commercial procurement and public procurement of innovative solutions. The Joint Undertaking will take into consideration the possibility of upgrading existing facilities to guarantee state-of-the-art technologies and a world- class ecosystem in High Performance Computing and quantum computing technologies and applications
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 20
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 20
(20) ‘national High Performance Computing competence centre’ means a legal entity established in a Participating State that is a Member State, associated with the national supercomputing centre of that Member State, providing users from industry, including SMEespecially SMEs and start-ups, academia, and public administrations with access on demand to the supercomputers and to the latest High Performance Computing technologies, tools, applications and services, and offering expertise, skills, training, networking and outreach;
Amendment 215 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) to promote, facilitate and widen the use of supercomputing services andin all sectors and to contribute to the development of key skills that European science and industry need.
Amendment 226 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) Infrastructure pillar, encompassing the activities for the acquisition, deployment, and operation of the secure, hyper-connected world-class supercomputing, quantum computing and European data infrastructure, including upgrading the existing infrastructure and the promotion of the uptake and systematic use of research and innovation results generated within the Union.
Amendment 248 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) Widening usage and skills pillar, aiming at fostering excellence in supercomputing, quantum computing, and data use and skills, including skills for procurements made in the framework of this regulation, taking into account synergies with other programs and instruments, in particular Digital Europe Program, widening the scientific and industrial use of supercomputing resources and data applications and fostering the industrial access and use of supercomputing and data infrastructures for innovation adapted to industrial needs; and providing Europe with a knowledgeable leading scientific community and a skilled workforce, for scientific leadership and digital transformation of industry, including the support and networking of national High Performance Computing Competence Centres and High Performance Computing Centres of Excellence. Special attention should be paid to the existing gender gap in the ICT sector, especially in HPC and quantum computing, and encourages the creation of specific programmes to promote the presence of women and reduce the additional barriers they face.
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 6
Article 5 – paragraph 6
(6) The Union's financial contribution referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1 shall be used for the Joint Undertaking to provide financial support to indirect actions as defined in Article xxx of the Horizon Europe Regulation, corresponding to the research and innovation agenda and through an open and transparent procedure.
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 7
Article 5 – paragraph 7
(7) The Union's financial contribution referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 shall be used for capability building across the whole Union, including the acquisition, and operation and upgrades of High Performance Computers, quantum computers or quantum simulators, the federation of the High Performance Computing and quantum computing service and data infrastructure and the widening of its use, and the development of advanced skills and training.
Amendment 303 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 4
Article 22 – paragraph 4