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REPORT on the proposal for a Council regulation on establishing the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
Amendments (23)
Amendment 98 #
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 foracross all economic sectors, such as medicine, transport and the, environment and energy.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The Communication from the Commission of 10 March 2020 entitled ‘A new Industrial Strategy for Europe’ is reflecting an ambitious industrial strategy for Europe to lead the twin transitions towards climate neutrality and digital leadership. The Communication stresses the support, among others, to the development of key enabling technologies that are strategically important for Europe’s industrial future, including High Performance Computing and quantum technologies. The development of a world- class European High Performance Computing infastrcuture and ecosystem represents a strategic resource for the future of EU's economies and for its security.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) High Performance Computing is a strategic resource for policy-making, powering applications that provide the means to understand and design efficient solutions to address many complex global challenges and for crisis management. High Performance Computing contributes to key policies such as the European Green Deal with models and tools for transforming the increasing number of complex environmental challenges into opportunities for social innovation and economic growth. An example is the Destination Earth initiative announced in the Communications from the Commission of 11 December 2019 on “The European Green Deal”, and of 19 February 2020 on “A European strategy for data” and on “Shaping Europe's digital future”. High performance computing should also be considered as a strategic asset to safeguard the innovation capacity of the European Union and foster economic growth. The present Joint Undertaking should also contribute to the strategic autonomy of the European Union.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
Amendment 107 #
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 111 #
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 and easily accessible troughout Europe, 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, edge computing or more broadly by the digitalisation of the European industry.
Amendment 137 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) TConsidering that the lack of skills and experience is an obstacle to access HPC and quantum computing technologies, the Joint Undertaking should contribute to reducaising the specific skills gap across the Union by engaging in awareness raising measures and assisting in the building of new knowledge and human capital. kills and experience level across the Union among students, academics and experts (male and female) in the relevent domains by engaging in awareness raising measures and assisting in the building of new knowledge and human capital as world- class HPCs require world-class skilled, trained, and well-educated engineers, physicists, mathematicians, and other beta-orientated people.
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26 a) To foster innovation, it is important that fresh ideas of European students become reality. It is therefore well advised to allocate a share of the Unions access time to HPCs to a dedicated board, compiled of students from the participating states. The dedicated board will ensure low-key access for applications to use time on the HPCs. The dedicated board could also showcase its selected projects convincing new students to pursue a beta-orientated career.
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39 a (new)
Recital 39 a (new)
(39 a) To promate an easy acces across the Union of EuroHCO supercomputers, the Joint Undertaking should create a federated infrastructure ecosystem approach with easy access in all participating states.
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 44
Recital 44
(44) User allocation of access time to the supercomputers of the Joint Undertaking should be free of charge for public users. It should also be free of charge for private users for their applications related to research and innovation activities funded by Horizon Europe or the Digital Europe Programme, as well as for private innovation activities of SMEs, where appropriate. Such allocation of access time should primarily be based on open calls for expression of interest launched by the Joint Undertaking and evaluated by independent experts. With the exception of SME users undertaking private innovation activities, all users benefiting from free-of-charge access time to the supercomputers of the Joint Undertaking should adopt an open science approach and disseminate knowledge gained through this access, in accordance with the Horizon Europe Regulation. User allocation of access time for economic activities other than private innovation activities of SMEs (which face particular market failures), should be granted on a pay-per-use basis, based on market on cost- based prices. Allocation of access time for such economic activities should be allowed but limited and the level of the fee to be paid should be established by the Governing Board. The access rights should be allocated in a transparent manner. The Governing Board should define specific rules to grant access time free of charge, where appropriate, and without a call for expression of interest to initiatives that are considered strategic either by the Union or by the Governing Board. Representative examples of strategic initiatives of the Union include: Destination Earth, the Human Brain Project Flagship, the “1+ Million Genomes” initiative, the common European data spaces operating in domains of public interest, and in particular the health data space, the High Performance Computing Centres of Excellence and Competence Centres, the Digital Innovation Hubs, etc. Upon Union’s request, the Joint Undertaking should grant direct access time on a temporary or permanent basis to strategic initiatives and existing or future application platforms that it considers essential for providing health- related or other crucial emergency support services for the public good, to emergency and crisis management situations or to cases that the Union considers essential for its security and defence. The Joint Undertaking should be allowed to carry out some limited economic activities for commercial purposes. Access should be granted to users residing, established or located in an EU Member State or a country associated to the Digital Europe Programme and to Horizon Europe. The access rights should be equitable to any user and allocated in a transparent manner. The Governing Board should define and monitor the access rights to the Union's share of access time for each supercomputer.
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47 a (new)
Recital 47 a (new)
(47 a) Since the supercomputers are demand-oriented and user-driven, the EuroHPC would benifit from a permanent dialogue with users of HPC infrastructures. The continuous involvement of industry, SMEs, and innovative companies and start-ups can have a high added value and multiplier effect. The user-side input should be actively sought through a regular consultation process. For that purpose, a working group (the ‘User Forum’) should be set up by the Governing Board to assist in the identification of the enhanced quality of service, usability, trust, and security requirements of users. The User Forum should should include representatives of industrial and public users.
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a (new)
(10 a) 'EuroHPC Student Governing Board’ means a separate body, allocating 10% of the Unions access time to HPCs, with the aim of providing low-key access to students within the participating states to foster disruptive and innovative ideas and to promote the pursuance of a beta- orientated career.
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new)
(15 a) 'indirect actions' means research and innovation activities to which the Union provides financial support and which are undertaken by participants;
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 27 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 27 a (new)
(27 a) 'single grant agreement' means a financial agreement for indirect actions between the Joint Undertaking, combining two or more financing sources, and a participant ;
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) to develop close cooperation and ensure coordination with other European Partnerships, including through joint calls, as well as seek synergies with relevant activities and programmes at Union, national, and regional level, in particular with those supporting the deployment of innovative solutions and modelling platforms, education and regional development, where relevant;
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d – point i
i) low-power micro-processing components as long as they enhance the computing power of a supercomputer, and related technologies such as novel algorithms, software codes, tools, and environments;
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e – point i
i) applications for public and private users that exploit the capabilities of high- end supercomputers and their convergence with advanced digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, computer modelling and simulation, high performance data analytics, cloud technologies, etc. through the co-design, development and optimisation of High Performance Computing-enabled large-scale and emerging lead-market codes and applications;
Amendment 295 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a Student Governing Board 1. Apart from the Governing Board a separate governing board will be established; every participating state shall have the right to nominate each year one student for the EuroHPC Student Governing Board; Members of the EuroHPC Student Governing Board exercise their duties for a period of maximum two years; 2. The EuroHPC Student Governing Board shall allocate 10% of the Unions access time to the EuroHPC supercomputers; 3. The EuroHPC Student Governing Board allocates access time to the EuroHPC supercomputers at its own discretion; 4. The EuroHPC Student Governing Board shall elect a President and a Vice President among their midst; 5. The President shall chair the EuroHPC Student Governing Board for one year, after that period the President will be succeeded by the Vice President; 6. Every bachelor or master student in a participating state shall have the right to file an application for access time to the EuroHPC supercomputers with the EuroHPC Student Governing Board; 7. The EuroHPC Student Governing Board allocates access time by consensus;
Amendment 322 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – point 2
Article 6 – point 2
(2) The Union shall hold 250% of the voting rights. The voting rights of the Union shall be indivisible.
Amendment 323 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – point 3 – introductory part
Article 6 – point 3 – introductory part
(3) For the tasks referred to in Article 7(3) of these Statutes, the remaining 750% of the voting rights shall be distributed equally among all Participating States.
Amendment 324 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – point 4 – introductory part
Article 6 – point 4 – introductory part
(4) For the tasks referred to in Article 7(4) of these Statutes, except points (f), (g) and (h), the remaining 750% of the voting rights shall be held by the Participating States that are Member States.
Amendment 326 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – point 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – point 6 – paragraph 1
At the first stage, the remaining 750% of the voting rights shall be distributed equally among all Participating States. Decisions of the Governing Board shall be taken by a majority consisting of the Union's vote and at least 55% of all votes of the Participating States, including the votes of the members who are absent.
Amendment 338 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – point 1
Article 16 – point 1
(1) Participating States shall entrust the Joint Undertaking with the implementation of their contributions toco- finance the participants of their country in indirect actions as referred to in Article 15(3)(f) of these Statutes through the single grant agreements concluded by the Joint Undertaking. They shall also entrust the Joint Undertaking with the payment of their contributions to the participants. They shall specify the amounts dedicated to indirect actions.