36 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2020/0260(NLE)
Amendment 106 #
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 of critical components for the pharmaceutical sector 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. as they enable the testing of the safety, efficacy and performance of new preventive strategies, optimisation of automated diagnosis modeling, medicines and medical devices . It is also important to ensure the convergence of HPC, Artificial Intelligence (including Machine and Deep Learning), big data, high performance data analytics (HPDA) and Cloud as major economic sectors relying on HPC include manufacturing, health and pharmaceuticals.
Amendment 112 #
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 secure 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, computer modelling and simulation, blockchain technologies, edge computing or more broadly by the digitalisation of the European industry.
Amendment 116 #
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 next generation low-power supercomputing technologies, innovative software and advanced supercomputing systems for exascale and post-exascale computing and quantum computing, including technologies for privacy-preserving computation 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 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15 a) In order to establish a robust quantum computing ecosystem within the Union, we need to invest in developing hardware-aware algorithms, standardization for encoding input/output data and facilitate access to and-users enabled by cloud services.
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Pursuing a common strategic EU vision in High Performance Computing and quantum computing and ensuring the transition from simulation-centric HPC to integrating HPC in a full continuum of IT infrastructure, including other ecosystems such as big data, AI and Internet of Things, 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 supply chain that will ensure components, technologies and knowledge limiting the risk of disruptions.
Amendment 130 #
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 engagement 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. The design and development of new teaching and training scheme will be key since the technologies and software in the fields of HPC and quantum computing are undergoing continuous change.
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) The Joint Undertaking should address clearly defined topics that would enable academia and European industries at large to design, develop and use the most innovative technologies in High Performance Computing and quantum computing, and to establish an integrated and federated, secure networked infrastructure across the Union with world- class High Performance Computing and quantum computing capability, high-speed connectivity and leading-edge applications and data and software services for its scientists and for other lead users from industry, including SMEs, start-ups and innovative businesses and the public sector. The Joint Undertaking should aim at the development and use of top class technologies and infrastructures, addressing the demanding requirements of European scientific, industrial and public sector users.
Amendment 135 #
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 capitalattracting and retaining the best talents, ensuring funding for digital upskilling and reskilling and upgrading competences combining software expertise with understanding in industry of frontier research in science and innovation, engaging in awareness raising measures, providing support in integrating HPC into the scientific and engineering curricula and assisting in the building of new knowledge and expertise in advanced digital fields, while ensuring the widest geographical coverage in the Union.
Amendment 147 #
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, start- ups and innovative businesses 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. 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, start-ups and innovative businesses.
Amendment 150 #
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, while ensuring resources are provided for interactive processing close to HPC systems and associated large-scale data repositories. Interactive computing services are also needed to make collaborative working easier. 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.
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 42
Recital 42
(42) The design and operation of the supercomputers supported by the Joint Undertaking should take into consideration energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, using for example low- power technology, dynamic power-saving and re-use techniques like advanced cooling and heat recycling. By combining power-efficient servers with sophisticated workload management tools, EuroHPC will improve efficiency both on-premises and in the cloud, reducing cost as well as the data centres' carbon footprint.
Amendment 168 #
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 and start-ups, where appropriate. Such allocation of access time should primarily be based on periodic, peer- reviewed and open calls for expression of interest launched by the Joint Undertaking and evaluated by independent experts with a view to ensuring balanced and appropriate allocation of offered HPC resources between its whole community of users. With the exception of SME and start-ups 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 and start-ups (which face particular market failures), should be granted on a 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. The access rights should be allocated in aopen and 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 aopen and transparent manner. The Governing Board should define and monitor the access rights to the Union's share of access time for each supercomputer.
Amendment 183 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
(2) ‘access time’ means the computing time of a supercomputer that is made available through a transparent and open process to a user or a group of users to execute their computer programmes;
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
(5) ‘co-design’ is a collective approach to reduce Europeans’ dependence on foreign technology, particularly in critical infrastructure components and increase European industry’s competitiveness, between technology suppliers and users engaged in a collaborative and iterative design process for developing new technology, application and systems and protecting supply chains in critical areas;
Amendment 185 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
(6) ‘Competence Centre’ in High Performance Computing (HPC) means a legal entity established in a Participating State providing users from industry, including 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 190 #
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 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 195 #
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 production of innovative and competitive supercomputing systems based on a supply chain that will ensure components, technologies and knowledge limiting the risk of disruptions and the development of a wide range of applications optimised for these systems; and, widen the use of this supercomputing infrastructure to a large number of public and private users, and support the development of key skillsadvanced digital skills, competences and knowledge for European science and industry.
Amendment 201 #
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 and local level, in particular with those supporting the deployment of innovative solutions, education and regional development, where relevant;
Amendment 204 #
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, while ensuring an appropriate high-bandwidth network infrastructure in all European countries;
Amendment 207 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d – point i (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d – point i (new)
Amendment 209 #
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 supercomputing and data ecosystem in Europe, contributing to the standing and technological autonomy of the Union in the digital economy, maintaining global leadership in HPC applications, capable to autonomously produce computing technologies and architectures and their integration on leading computing systems, and advanced applications optimised for these systems;
Amendment 217 #
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 skillsadvanced digital skills, competences and knowledge that European science and industry need.
Amendment 219 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 3
(3) The Joint Undertaking shall contribute to safeguarding the interests of the Union when procuring supercomputers and supporting the development of High Performance Computing technologies, systems and applications. It shall enable a co-design approach for the acquisition of world-class supercomputers, while safeguarding the security of the supply chain of procured technologies and systems. It shall contribute to the Union’s technological autonomy by reducing Europeans’ dependence on foreign technology, particularly in critical areas, increasing European industry’s competitiveness, supporting the development of technologies and applications reinforcing the European HPC technology supply chain and promoting their integration in supercomputing systems that address a large number of societal and industrial needs and underpin Europe's global leadership in various industries, especially in high value added and technology-intensive products and services to provide critical components, technology, and skills aiming to close the technological gap with third countries.
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d – introductory part
(d) Technology pillar, addressing the activities for supporting an ambitious research and innovation agenda for developing a world-class, competitive and innovative supercomputing ecosystem addressing hardware and software technologies, and their integration into computing systems, covering the whole scientific and industrial value chain, for ensuring technological autonomy of the Union. from research to prototyping, piloting and demonstration, for ensuring technological autonomy of the Union. EuroHPC JU shall contribute to the development of the relevant European industrial sectors so that they can cover the entire production chain (design, manufacturing, implementation and application).Focus shall be on energy-efficient High Performance Computing technologies. Activities shall address inter alia:
Amendment 236 #
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, power-efficient nanoelectronics and related technologies such as novel algorithms, software codes, tools,, scientific and industrial codes, tools, middleware solutions, parallel programming and computing resource optimisation solutions and environments;
Amendment 238 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d – point iii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d – point iii
iii) technologies and systems for the interconnection and operation of classical supercomputing systems with other, often complementary computing technologies, such as neuromorphic or quantum computing and ensure their effective, secure and reliable operation.
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e – introductory part
(e) Application pillar, addressing activities for achieving and maintaining European excellence in key computing and data applications and codes for science, industry (including SMEs and start-ups) and the public sector, including;
Amendment 243 #
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 251 #
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 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, while ensuring that application knowledge and expertise has the widest geographical coverage in the Union. Specific actions on the activities above may include:
Amendment 252 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f – point i (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f – point i (new)
i) Defining a set of career paths, job placements involving the use of HPC in real environment, HPC hackathons and skillsets required to leverage EuroHPC to promote sustainable growth in Europe, by providing relevant, mission-driven research and application problems, funding for internships and scholarships, such as Master’s programmes in HPC and computational science and partnerships with industry and academia.
Amendment 253 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f – point ii (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f – point ii (new)
ii) Working with academia and business sector leaders to describe and develop curricula that will produce new experts in supercomputing and quantum computing with the necessary skillsets and engineering knowledge.
Amendment 254 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f – point iii (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f – point iii (new)
iii) Working with front-runners in the computing and education communities to adapt and test new, more flexible methods of education and workforce development that enable rapid knowledge advancement and in-career transitions to HPC-related positions.
Amendment 255 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f – point iv (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point f – point iv (new)
iv) Industry-specific training, including hands on training and solving real use cases, and SME-tailored courses and support offerings like staff exchange programmes with research and academia.
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2
Article 13 – paragraph 2
(2) The Union financial contribution referred to in Article 5(1) shall cover up to 350% of the acquisition costs and up to 50% of the operating costs of the mid- range supercomputers. The remaining total cost of ownership of the mid-range supercomputers shall be covered by the Participating State where the hosting entity is established or the Participating States in the hosting consortium, possibly supplemented by the contributions referred to in Article 6.
Amendment 290 #
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 transparent and 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 for applications related to research and innovation activities funded by Horizon Europe or the Digital Europe Programme and for private innovation activities of SMEs, where appropriate. Resources provided by the EuroHPC are open to all scientists, irrespective of their nationality, provided the projects comply with EU legislation. 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 292 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 8
Article 15 – paragraph 8
(8) The Governing Board shall define specific and transparent rules for access conditions that depart from the guiding principles referred to in paragraph 6 of this Article. These concern the allocation of access time for projects and activities considered as strategic either by the Union or by the Governing Board.