Activities of Ville NIINISTÖ related to 2020/0260(NLE)
Plenary speeches (1)
European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a Council regulation on establishing the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
Amendments (33)
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Communication from the Commission of 19 February 2020 entitled ‘A European Strategy for Data’ outlines Europe’s strategy for policy measures and investments to enable the data economy for the coming five years. It emphasises the creation of European public common data spaces that will boost growth and create valuesupport the targets of the Green Deal . Support to the creation of such common European data spaces and federated, secure cloud infrastructures would ensure that more data becomes available for use in the economy and society, while keeping companies and individuals who generate the data in control. The new framework and infrastructure can contribute to growth by increasing competition in oligopolistic markets in the Union as long as cloud infrastructures are based on the principles of trust, openness, security, interoperability and portability; Data portability principles should overcome, to the extent necessary, differences in IT providers’ infrastructures and practices to ensure that users’ data is ported effectively; High Performance Computing and quantum computing are essential components of the seamless provision of computing resources with different performance characteristics required to maximize the growth and exploitation of European public common data spaces and federated, secure cloud infrastructures for public, industrial and scientific applications.
Amendment 97 #
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 human centric digital transformation that works for the benefit of peopleill contribute and be aligned to the Green Deal targets. 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 environment.
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Europe’s leading role in the data economy, its scientific excellence, and its industrial strength increasingly depend on its ability to develop key High Performance Computing technologies, as well as to provide access to world-class supercomputing and data infrastructures, and to maintain its present leadership in High Performance Computing applications. High Performance Computing iscould be a mainstream technology for the digital transformation of the European economy, enablingand it has the potential to enable many traditional industrial sectors to innovate with higher value products and services. In combination with other advanced digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, big data and cloud technologies, when deployed and used in a human centric and ethical way, High Performance Computing is paving the way towards innovative societal and industrial applications in critical areas for Europe such as personalised medicine, weather forecast and climate change, smart and green development and transport, new materials for clean energyresearch, drug design and virtual testing, sustainable agriculture, or engineering and manufacturing.
Amendment 104 #
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 economicnvironmentally sustainable 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”.
Amendment 110 #
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, edge computing or more broadly by the digitalisation of the European industry.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In order for the Union and its Member States to reach technological autonomy in key digital technologies such as High Performance Computing and quantum computing, they should invest in and develop next generation low-power and energy and resource efficient supercomputing technologies, innovative software and advanced supercomputing systems for exascale and post-exascale computing and quantum computing, and for innovative supercomputing and data applications for medicine, the environment, manufacturing and engineering. This should allow the European supply industry to thrive in a wide range of key technology and application areas that reach beyond High Performance Computing and quantum computing and, in the long run, feed broader ICT markets with such technologies. It would also support the High Performance Computing and quantum computing science and user industry to undergo a digital transformation and boost its innovation potential.
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Pursuing a common strategic EU vision in High Performance Computing and quantum computing is essential for realising the Union’s and its Member States’ ambition to ensure a leading role and strategic autonomy in the digital economy. The objective would be to establish in Europe a world leading hyper- connected, federated and secure High Performance Computing and quantum computing service and data infrastructure ecosystem, and be in a position to produce innovative and competitive High Performance Computing and quantum computing systems based on a responsible supply chain that will ensure components, technologies and knowledge limiting the risk of disruptions while protecting the people and the environment.
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) A Joint Undertaking represents the best instrument capable to implement the strategic EU vision in High Performance Computing and quantum computing, ensuring that the Union enjoys world-class supercomputing, quantum computing and data capabilities according to its economic potential, matching the needs of European users, and with the required strategic autonomy in critical High Performance Computing and quantum computing technologies. The Joint Undertaking is the best instrumentone of the instruments that contribute to overcomeing the present limitations, as described in the Staff Working Document accompanying this Regulation, while offering thea highest economic, societal, and environmental impact and best safeguarding the Union’s interests in High Performance Computing and quantum computing when properly funded, developed and implemented. It can pool resources from the Union, the Member States and countries associated to Horizon Europe and the Digital Europe Programme or the Connecting Europe Facility and the private sector. It can implement a procurement framework and operate world-class High Performance Computing and quantum computing systems. It can launch research and innovation programmes for developing European technologies and their subsequent integration in world-class supercomputing systems.
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is part of the Institutionalised Partnerships portfolio under Horizon Europe which should strive to strengthen EU civilian scientific capacities to deal with emerging threats and future challenges in a reinforced European Research Area; secure environmental targets and sustainability- driven EU value chains and EU strategic autonomy in key technologies and industries; and enhance the uptake of innovative solutions addressing climate, environmental, health and other global societal challenges in line with Union strategic priorities, including to reach climate neutrality in the Union in 2050.
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) The public-private partnership in the form of the Joint Undertaking should combine the financial and technical means that are essential to master the complexity of the ever escalating pace of innovation in this area. Therefore, the members of the Joint Undertaking should be the Union, Member States and countries associated to Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe Programme or the Connecting Europe Facility agreeing on a joint European initiative in High Performance Computing and quantum computing; and associations representing their constituent entities and other organisations with an explicit and active engagecommitment to produce research and innovation results, to develop and deploy high performance computing or quantum computing capabilities, or contributing to address the skills gap and keep the know- how in the field of High Performance Computing and quantum computing in Europe. The Joint Undertaking should be open to new members.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) The Joint Undertaking should contribute to reducing the specific skills and gender gap across the Union by engaging in awareness raising measures and assisting in the building of new knowledge and human capital while preventing all kinds of biases, especially gender and racial biases from being introduced in the algorithms, products or conclusions resulting from its work, and encourage women participation in STEM.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) In order to achieve its objectives to increase the innovation potential of industry, and in particular of SMEs, to contribute to reducing the specific skills gap, to support the increase of knowledge and human capital and to upraise High Performance Computing and quantum computing capabilities, the Joint Undertaking should support the creation, and in particular the networking and coordination of national High Performance Computing competence centres across the Union. These competence centres should provide High Performance Computing and quantum computing services to industry, academia and public administrations on their demand and provide a possibility for individuals and non-governmental organisation to use the computing powers for socially and environmentally beneficial goals. They should primarily promote and enable access to the High Performance Computing innovation ecosystem, facilitate access to the supercomputers and quantum computers, address the significant shortages in skilled technical experts by undertaking awareness raising, training and outreach activities, and embark on networking activities with stakeholders and other competence centres to foster wider innovations, for example by exchanging and promoting best practice use cases or application experiences, by sharing their training facilities and experiences, by facilitating the co- development and exchange of parallel codes, or by supporting the sharing of innovative applications and tools for public and private users, in particular SMEs. In order to avoid duplication, synergies and coordination should be ensured with other similar structures, such as the Digital Innovation Hubs.
Amendment 151 #
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, 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 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. and support the use of open standards, open source software and hardware, open source platforms and, where appropriate, open, well-formed APIs in an effort to achieve interoperability.
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 42
Recital 42
(42) The design and operation of the supercomputers supported by the Joint Undertaking should take into considerationinclude at least energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, using for exampleincluding renewable power purchasing agreements, using at least low-power technologyies, dynamic power- saving and re-use techniques like advanced cooling and heat recycling.
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 43
Recital 43
(43) The use of the supercomputers of the Joint Undertaking should be primarily for civilian applications for public and private users residing, established or located in a Member State or in a country associated to the Digital Europe Programme and to Horizon Europe. Users should be granted access time according to access policy rules defined by the Governing Board. The use of these supercomputers should also respect international agreements concluded by the Union.
Amendment 169 #
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, including NGOs and individuals, for their applications related toin research and innovation activitieprojects funded by Horizon Europe or the Digital Europe Programme, as well as for private innovation activities of SMEs, where appropriateich face particular market failures, based on fair and transparent criteria and procedures. 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, aAll 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 transparent pay-per-use basis, based on market 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 in a transparent manner. 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 civilian 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 193 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
(1) The mission of the Joint Undertaking shall be to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the Union a world leading federated, secure and hyper- connected supercomputing, quantum computing, service and data infrastructure ecosystem; support the producdevelopment, deployment and operation of innovative and competitive supercomputing systems based on a supply chain that will ensure state of the art components, technologies and knowledge limiting the risk of disruptions and the development of a wide range of applications optimised for these systems based on the principles of trust, openness, security, interoperability and portability; and, widen the use of this supercomputing infrastructure to a large number of public and private users, and support the Green Deal, development of key skills for European society, science and industry.
Amendment 205 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) to federate the hyper-connected supercomputing and data infrastructure and interconnect it with the European data spaces and cloud ecosystem for providing computing and data services to a wide range of public and private users in Europe based on the principles of trust, openness, security, interoperability and portability;
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) to further develop and support a highly competitive and innovative interconnected and interoperable supercomputing and data ecosystem in Europe contributing to the standing and technological autonomy of the Union in the digital economy, capable to autonomously produce computing technologies and architectures and their integration on leading computing systems, and advanced applications optimised for these systems;
Amendment 214 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) to widen the use of supercomputing services and the development of key skills that European science and industry need with emphasis on enhancing women and girls participation in STEM through involvement and employment and reducing the gender gap in the digital sector.
Amendment 229 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
(ii) support to the interconnection and interoperability of the supercomputing, and quantum computing data infrastructures with the Union's common European data spaces and federated, secure cloud infrastructures while including specific requirements for cybersecurity, open data and data portability and the use of open source software and hardware;
Amendment 242 #
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, high performance data analytics, privacy enhancing applications, cloud technologies, etc. through the co-design, development and optimisation of High Performance Computing-enabled large-scale and emerging lead-market codes and applications, potentially benefiting from open cooperation models like open source;
Amendment 246 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e – point ii
ii) support, among others, to Centres of Excellence in High Performance Computing applications and large-scale High Performance Computing-enabled pilot demonstrators and test-beds for big data applications and services in a wide range of scientific and industrial sectors, while excluding personal data and activities that lead to deanonymization of personal data.
Amendment 268 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5 – point d
Article 8 – paragraph 5 – point d
(d) quality of the hosting facility's physical, energy and IT infrastructure, its security and its connectivity with the rest of the Union;
Amendment 270 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5 – point d a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 5 – point d a (new)
(d a) provision of an energy management plan including a strategy to increase energy-efficiency of the installation and access to renewable energy through renewable power purchase agreements;
Amendment 273 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point k
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point k
(k) the obligation of the hosting entity to submit by 31 January of each year to the Governing Board an audit report and data on the use of access time in the previous financial year; the audit report shall be made publicly available within 3 months of approval of the Governing Board;
Amendment 286 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
(1) The use of EuroHPC supercomputers shall be open to users from the public and private sectors and shall primarily focus onfor civilian applications. Except for the industrial- grade EuroHPC supercomputers, their use shall be primarily for research and innovation purposes falling under public funding programmes, for public sector applications and for private innovation activities of SMEs, where appropriate.
Amendment 289 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 5
Article 15 – paragraph 5
(5) The Governing Board shall define and make publicly available the access rights to the Union's share of access time to the EuroHPC supercomputers.
Amendment 291 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 6
Article 15 – paragraph 6
(6) Use of the Union's share of access time to the EuroHPC supercomputers shall be free of charge for the users from the public sector referred to in Article 14(4) of this Regulation. It will also be free of charge for industrial users, NGOs and individuals, for applications related toin research and innovation activitieprojects funded by Horizon Europe or the Digital Europe Programme and for private innovation activities of SMEs which face particular market failures, where appropriate. As a guiding principle, allocation of access time for such activities shall be based on a fair and transparent peer review process defined by the Governing Board following continuously open calls for expression of interest launched by the Joint Undertaking.
Amendment 293 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 9
Article 15 – paragraph 9
(9) Upon request of the Union, the Executive Director shall grant direct access to the EuroHPC supercomputers to initiatives that the Union considers essential for providing environment, health-related or other crucial emergency support services for the public good, to in civilian emergency and crisis management situations or to cases that the Union considers essential for its security and defence. The modalities and conditions for the implementation of such access shall be defined in the access conditions adopted by the Governing Board.
Amendment 294 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 11 – introductory part
Article 15 – paragraph 11 – introductory part
(11) The Governing Board shall regularly monitor the Union's and Member States access time granted per Participating State and per user category, including for commercial purposes and report annually on the use of the supercomputers per categories and geographic scope of users. It may decide to:
Amendment 299 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2
Article 19 – paragraph 2
(2) The Governing Board shall adopt a decision laying down rules on the secondment of national experts to the Joint Undertaking and on the use of trainees. All seconded national experts will be paid by the Joint Undertaking according to Union regulations and no cost employment is forbidden.
Amendment 314 #
(1) The Joint Undertaking shall provide the Union institutions and Union bodies, offices or agencies access to all information related to the indirect actions it funds. Such information shall include results of beneficiaries participating in indirect actions of the Joint Undertaking or any other information deemed necessary for developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating Union policies or programmes. Such access rights are limited to non-commercial and non- competitive use and shall comply with applicable confidentiality rules.