Preparatory phase in Parliament
2018/0003(NLE) European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
Legal Basis TFEU 187, TFEU 188 -a1
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Legal Basis TFEU 187, TFEU 188 -a1
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PURPOSE: to establish a European Joint Undertaking for High Performance Computing (EuroHPC) during the period 2019-2026. PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the Council adopts the act after consulting the European Parliament but without being obliged to follow the opinion of the European Parliament. BACKGROUND: High performance computing (HPC) is an indispensable tool for addressing major scientific and societal challenges such as early detection of diseases, forecasting climate change or the prevention of natural disasters. It has an increasingly important impact on industries and businesses as it reduces design and production cycles. Lastly, it is essential for national security and defence. At present, the supercomputers available in the Union do not satisfy demand. European scientists and industry are increasingly processing their data outside the EU. This lack of independence can create problems, especially with regard to the protection of personal data and the ownership of data, in particular for sensitive applications such as health. Since 2012, the Commission has been promoting EU initiatives in this area: on 19 April 2016, the Commission adopted the European Cloud Initiative, as part of its Digitising European Industry strategy. This involves the Commission and the Member States creating a leading European HPC and big data ecosystem, underpinned by a world-class HPC, data and network infrastructure; on 23 March 2017, at the Digital Day in Rome, seven Member States (France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain) signed the EuroHPC declaration. They were subsequently joined by Belgium, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Greece and Croatia. These 13 countries agreed to work together and with the Commission to acquire and deploy, by 2022/2023, a pan-European integrated exascale supercomputing infrastructure (EuroHPC) (i.e. at least 10 to the power of 18 or 1 billion calculations per second), which is expected to be reached around 2021-2022. The EuroHPC initiative will enable Member States to coordinate together with the Commission their HPC investments and strategies. The end goal is to establish in the EU a world-class HPC and data infrastructure that Member States on their own cannot afford. IMPACT ASSESSMENT: the chosen option is that of the creation of a Joint Undertaking providing a legal, contractual and organisational common framework to structure the joint commitments entered into by its participating members. It also provides its members with a firm governance structure and budgetary certainty. It can: implement joint procurement and operate world-class HPC systems via the promotion of (in particular European) technology; as the owner of the pre-exascale supercomputers funded jointly by its members and so facilitate non-discriminatory access to them; launch R&D&I programmes for developing technologies and their subsequent integration in European exascale supercomputing systems. CONTENT: the proposed Regulation aims to establish a ‘European Joint Undertaking for High Performance Computing’ for a period until 31 December 2026. The key objective is to provide European scientists, businesses and the public sector with the latest data and HPC infrastructures and to support the development of its technologies and its applications across a wide range of fields. The following activities are provided to this effect: provide a framework for acquisition of an integrated world-class pre-exascale supercomputing and data infrastructure in the Union: in 2019-2020, the Joint Undertaking will procure two world-class pre-exascale machines of a few hundred petaflops and co-finance the acquisition of at least two additional machines of the order of a few tens of petaflops; it will manage access to these supercomputers for a wide range of public and private users starting in 2020; support the research and development of an integrated High Performance Computing ecosystem in the Union covering all scientific and industrial value chain segments notably hardware, software, applications, services, engineering, interconnections, know-how and skills. Governance of the Joint Undertaking: the Joint Undertaking governance shall be assured by two bodies: a Governing Board, and an Industrial and Scientific Advisory Board. The Governing board should be composed of Representatives of the Union and Participating States. It should be responsible for strategic policy making and funding decisions related to the activities of the Joint Undertaking, in particular for all the public procurement activities. The Industrial and Scientific Advisory Board should include representatives of academia and industry as users and technology suppliers. Financing: the Union's financial contribution to the Joint Undertaking would be up to a maximum of EUR 486 million under the current multiannual financial framework, broken down as follows: (i) EUR 386 million from the Horizon 2020 programme; (ii) EUR 100 million from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). This contribution shall be matched by Participating States and the Private Members of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.
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- Legislative proposal published: COM(2018)0008
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121 amendments...
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 1 (1) The access to the supercomputers shall be primarily for civilian research and innovation purposes falling under public funding programmes and shall be open to users from the public and private sectors.
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 2 (2) The Governing Board shall define the general access conditions and may define specific access conditions for different types of users or applications. The
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 3 (3) Without prejudice to international agreements concluded by the Union, only users residing, established or located in a Member State or in a country associated to Horizon 2020, shall be granted access time, except if decided otherwise by the Governing Board in duly justified cases, particularly regarding other reliable third countries, taking into account the interests of the Union.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new) (3a) Access to the supercomputers shall be granted exclusively for the purpose of civilian research and innovation activities.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 1 (1) Specific conditions shall apply to industrial users applying for access right
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 1 (1) Specific conditions shall apply to industrial users applying for access right for civilian private research purposes, non- research and innovation purposes or commercial purposes. This commercial service shall be a paying service, based on market prices. The level of the fee shall be established by the Governing Board.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 3 (3) The total access time allocated to commercial services shall not exceed 10% of the total available access time of each supercomputer. The Governing Board shall decide on the allocation and the queue of the access time for commercial services, giving priority to the non-commercial activities.
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 3 (3) The total access time allocated to commercial services shall not exceed
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 14 – paragraph 1 (1) The Joint Undertaking may make use of seconded national experts and trainees not employed by the Joint Undertaking. The number of seconded national experts expressed in full-time equivalents shall be added to the information on staff resources as referred to in Article 13(4) in accordance with the annual budget. All seconded national experts will be paid by the Joint Undertaking according to Union regulations and no cost employment is forbidden.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 17 – paragraph 1 (1) By 30 June 2022 the Commission shall carry out, with the assistance of independent experts, an interim evaluation of the Joint Undertaking, which shall assess in particular the level of participation in, and contribution to, the actions by the Participating States, the Private Members and their constituent entities and affiliated entities, and also by other legal entities. The evaluation should also identify possible other policy needs, including assessment of the situation for specific sectors on their possibility to fully access and use the possibilities enabled by High Performance Computing. The Commission shall prepare a report on that evaluation which includes conclusions of the evaluation and
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 17 – paragraph 1 (1) By 30 June 2022 the Commission shall carry out, with the assistance of independent experts, an interim evaluation of the Joint Undertaking, which shall assess in particular the level of participation in, and contribution to, the actions by the Participating States, the Private Members and their constituent entities and affiliated entities as well as European industry at large, and also by other legal entities. The Commission shall prepare a report on that evaluation which includes conclusions of the evaluation and observations by the Commission. The Commission shall send that report to the European Parliament and to the Council by 31 December 2022.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 17 – paragraph 3 a (new) (3a) The evaluation shall follow in assessing of art. 12, which should be reviewed based on the usage;
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 21 – paragraph 1 Without prejudice to Article 22, the Joint Undertaking shall ensure the protection of sensitive information the disclosure of which could damage the interests of its members or of participants in the activities of the Joint Undertaking except for the cases or a general public interest or damage to a person or institution could incur if confidentiality rule is applied.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point c (c) initiate and manage the procedure
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point d (d) select the hosting entity of the pre- exascale supercomputers, in accordance with
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point i (i) provide financial support, mainly in the form of grants, focusing on applications, outreach activities, awareness raising actions and professional development and reconversion activities for attracting human resources to High Performance Computing, promoting a balanced participation of men and women, as well as increasing skills and engineering know-how of the ecosystem;
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point j (j) initiate open calls for proposals and award funding to civilian research, development and innovation actions within the limits of available funds;
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 6 – point 1 – paragraph 2 Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 6 – point 2 – paragraph 1 Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 6 – point 2 – paragraph 2 Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 6 – point 2 – paragraph 3 The Participating States of the Joint Undertaking shall
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 6 – point 2 – paragraph 4 The Participating States of the Joint Undertaking
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 6 – point 3 (3) The members of the Governing Board shall make every effort to achieve consensus. Failing consensus, the Governing Board shall take its decisions by a majority of at least 75% of all votes and one third of all the Participating States, including the votes of the members who are absent.
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 6 – point 3 (3) The members of the Governing Board shall make every effort to achieve consensus. Failing consensus, the Governing Board shall take its decisions by a majority of at least 75% of
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 6 – point 4 Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 6 – point 5 (5) The Governing Board shall elect a chair among its members for a period of two years. The mandate of the chairperson shall be extended only once, following a decision by the Governing Board.
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 6 – point 6 – paragraph 2 The quorum of the Governing Board shall be constituted by the Commission and at least half of the number of th
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 7 – point 3 – point o a (new) (oa) endorse the result of the fair and transparent process of selecting the hosting entities in accordance with article 6.3 of this Regulation;
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 8 – point 1 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 (new) The candidates list should be drawn with a view to ensure equal representation and opportunities for men and women.
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 10 – point 2 (2) The Research and Innovation
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 10 – point 2 (2) The Research and Innovation Advisory Group shall consist of no more than twelve members, whereof no more than
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 15 – point 5 (5) Should any member of the Joint Undertaking be in default of its commitments concerning its financial contribution, the Executive Director shall put this in writing and shall set a reasonable period within which such default shall be remedied. If the situation is not remedied within that period, the Executive Director shall convene a meeting of the Governing Board to decide whether the defaulting member’s membership is to be revoked or whether any other measures are to be taken until its obligations have been met.
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 21 – paragraph 1 a (new) The Joint Undertaking shall ensure compliance with Union law on data protection, and privacy.
Amendment 135 #
Proposal for a regulation Annex – Article 23 – point 2 (2) The Joint Undertaking Governing Board shall adopt rules for the prevention and management of conflicts of interest in respect of its members, bodies and staff in line with Union best practices. Those rules shall also contain provisions intended to avoid a conflict of interest in respect of the representatives of the members of the Joint Undertaking serving on the Governing Board.
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 2 (2) Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council15 establishes Horizon 2020 – The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020), ‘Horizon 2020’. It aims to achieve a greater impact with respect to research and innovation by combining Horizon 2020 and private- sector funds in public-private partnerships in key areas where research and innovation can contribute to the Union’s wider competitiveness goals, leverage private investment and help tackle societal challenges. Those partnerships should be based on a long-term commitment, including a balanced contribution from all partners, be accountable for the achievement of their objectives and be aligned with the Union’s strategic goals relating to research, development and innovation. The governance and functioning of those partnerships should be open, transparent, effective and efficient and give the opportunity to a wide range of stakeholders active in their specific areas to participate and to civil society organisations and citizen groups to be properly consulted in the decision-making process. __________________ 15 Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 establishing Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) and repealing Decision No 1982/2006/EC (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 104)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 8 (8) The Communication from the Commission of 19 April 2016 entitled ‘European Cloud Initiative – building a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe22 ’, calls for the establishment of a European Data Infrastructure based on leading-class High Performance Computing capabilities and the development of a full European High Performance Computing ecosystem capable of developing new European technology and realise exascale supercomputers. The importance of the area and the challenges faced by the stakeholders in the Union require urgent action in order to gather the necessary resources and capabilities to close the chain from research and development to the delivery and operation of the exascale High Performance Computing systems. Therefore a mechanism should be set up at Union level to combine and concentrate the provision of support to the establishment of a world-leading European High Performance Computing infrastructure and for research and innovation in High Performance Computing by Member States, the Union and the private sector. This infrastructure should provide access to the public sector users, users from industry, including SMEs and users from academia, including the scientific communities being part of the European Open Science Cloud. __________________ 22 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 8 a (new) (8a) The involvement of academic and research institutions and other stakeholders, should be encouraged with a view to maintaining and supporting integrated scientific data infrastructures and High Performance Computing.
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 (10) In order to equip the Union with the computing performance needed to maintain its research at a leading edge and in order to harness the added value of joint action on Union level the Member States investment in High Performance Computing should be coordinated and the industrial take-up of High Performance Computing technology have to be reinforced. The Union should increase its effectiveness in turning the technology developments into High Performance Computing systems that are procured in Europe, establishing an effective link
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 a (new) (10a) Since there is a serious funding gap in the field of High Performance Computing in comparison with other entities in the world and since the applications of High Performance Computing in the fields of, inter alia, medicine, climate research and industry, this could potentially cause the Union to fall behind on the field of innovation, which is an important motor for its economic success, it is of the utmost strategic and economic importance that this issue is addressed.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 a (new) (10a) Calls on the Commission and Member States to explore appropriate governance and funding frameworks, taking sufficient consideration of EuroHPC JU initiative and their sustainability and of a European-wide level playing field; stresses that Member States should consider the funding programmes in an integrated way to Commission’s approach;
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 a (new) (10a) In the joint effort to establish a European high performance computing ecosystem, it is necessary to take into account the shared values underlying the European project that serve to define a European digital identity.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 b (new) (10b) Since there are serious defence and security risks aligned to the dependency of the Union on foreign High Performance Computing technology, it is in the interest of the security of the Union that investments are made in the development of a European High Performance Computing infrastructure, functioning independently.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 b (new) (10b) Believes that the European Technology Platform and the cPPP on HPC are crucial to define Europe’s research priorities in developing European technology in all segments of the HPC solution supply chain;
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 11 (11) A Joint Undertaking represents the best available instrument capable to implement the goals of the European High performance Computing Strategy as defined in the European Cloud Initiative24, to overcome the present limitations, while offering the highest economic
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 11 a (new) (11a) The mission of the Joint Undertaking is to establish and maintain in Europe an integrated world-class High Performance Computing and Big Data ecosystem based on European leadership in HPC, Cloud and Big Data technologies
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 12 (12) The Joint Undertaking should be set up and start operating in 2019 to reach the target of equipping the Union with a pre- exascale infrastructure by 2020 and developing the necessary technologies for reaching, where possible, autonomous exascale capabilities by 2022/2023. Since a development cycle of the next generation of technology typically takes 4-5 years, to stay competitive on the global market, the actions to reach this
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 12 (12) The Joint Undertaking should be set up and start operating in 2019 to reach the target of equipping the Union with a pre- exascale infrastructure by 2020 and developing the necessary technologies for reaching exascale capabilities by 2022/2023. Since a development cycle of the next generation of technology typically takes 4-5 years, to stay competitive on the global market,
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 12 a (new) (12a) Believes that the HPC initiative ensures investments into science and research sectors in order to create business incentives and tools to share and use data as widely as possible, underpinned by building a strong cloud and data infrastructure in Europe;
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 12 b (new) (12b) Stresses that EuroHPC JU, should be treated as an integral part of the European Data Infrastructure across the whole ecosystem and the benefits should be promoted widely;
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 12 c (new) (12c) Believes that Europe needs a complete demand-driven HPC ecosystem including trusted and secure high-speed network services, to acquire leadership- class supercomputers, secure its HPC system supply, and deploy HPC services to industry and SMEs for simulation, visualisation and prototyping. Considers that it is of utmost importance to put the EU among the top supercomputing powers in the world by 2022;
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 13 a (new) (13a) Calls on the Commission to encourage more Member States to join EuroHPC JU and use it as a priority area for research and development programmes corresponding with national activities. Stresses that the European Commission should promote the initiative in all Member States as part of a strong political and economic commitment in digital innovation;
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 13 a (new) (13a) The Joint Undertaking should aim at participation of all EU Member States and respect the principle of geographical balance in its activities. Where appropriate, an international cooperation between the Participating Countries or between the participating countries and other reliable countries should be promoted.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 14 (14) The Union, the Participating States
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 15 a (new) (15a) Supports the Commission efforts together with European industry researchers and academia for deployment of EuroHPC JU in synergy with Big Data, the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing Value PPP and the cPPP that enhance community building around data and set the grounds for a thriving data-driven economy in Europe.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 (18) 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 to establish an integrated infrastructure across the Union with world-class High Performance 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 and the public sector. The Joint Undertaking should make efforts to reduce the specific HPC-related skills gap, encouraging requalification, HPC related career choices and offering special programs to encourage balanced representation of men and women in the HPC career paths. The Joint Undertaking should prepare the path towards building the first hybrid High Performance Computing infrastructure in Europe, integrating classical computing architectures with quantum computing devices, e.g. exploiting the quantum computer as an accelerator of High Performance Computing threads. Structured and coordinated financial support at European level is necessary to help research teams and European industries remain at the leading edge in a highly competitive international context by producing world-
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 (18) 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 to establish an integrated infrastructure across the Union with world-class High Performance 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 and start-ups and the public sector. The Joint Undertaking should make efforts to reduce the specific HPC-related
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 (18) The Joint Undertaking should address clearly defined topics that would enable academia
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 (18) 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 to establish an integrated infrastructure across the Union with world-class High Performance Computing capability, high-speed connectivity and leading-edge applications and data and software services for its scientists and for other lead users from industry, in
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 a (new) (18a) The Joint Undertaking should provide European scientists, industry and the public sector with access to world- class supercomputers and associated services, giving them the tools to stay at the forefront of science and industrial competition.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 b (new) (18b) In order to build the necessary capacity in the Member States, one High Performance Computing Competence Centre associated with the national supercomputing centre should be established per Member State; the Centres should facilitate and promote access to the HPC ecosystem, from access to the supercomputers, to access to applications and services; they should also provide to HPC users learning and training courses for building HPC skills and should promote awareness raising and training and outreach activities of the benefits of HPC for SMEs in particular and embark on networking activities with stakeholders and other Competence Centres to foster wider innovations enabling further HPC uptake.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 a (new) (20a) The supercomputers acquired and supported by the Joint Undertaking should be designed and selected in order to maximise their efficiency for scientific purposes as well as for their use by industry. For that reason, the European Commission need take steps to further strengthen the assessment of efficiency and cost-effectiveness in its evaluations.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) The Joint Undertaking should be the owner of the pre-exascale supercomputers it has acquired. The operation of the pre-exascale supercomputers should be entrusted to a hosting entity, i.e. a legal entity in a Member State participating in the Joint Undertaking which provides facilities to host and operate a supercomputer. The hosting entity should ensure to the extent possible a physical and functional separation of the Joint Undertaking pre- exascale supercomputers and any other, national or regional computing systems it operates. The hosting entity should be selected by the Governing Board of the Joint Undertaking. The Joint Undertaking should remain the owner of the pre- exascale supercomputers until they are de
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 22 (22) The use of the pre-exascale and petascale supercomputers should be primarily for civilian public research and innovation purposes, for any user from academia, industry or the public sector. The Joint Undertaking should be allowed to carry out some limited civilian economic activities for private purposes. Access should be granted to users established in the Union or an Associated Country to Horizon 2020. The access rights should be equitable to any user and allocated in a transparent manner. The Governing Board should define the access rights to the Union’s share of access time for each supercomputer.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 22 (22) The use of the pre-exascale and petascale supercomputers should be primarily for public research and innovation purposes, for any user from academia, industry, including SMEs or the public sector. The Joint Undertaking should be allowed to carry out some limited economic activities for private purposes. Access should be granted to users established in the Union or an Associated Country to Horizon 2020. The access rights should be equitable to any user and allocated in a transparent manner. The Governing Board should define the access rights to the Union’s share of access time for each supercomputer.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 22 (22) The use of the pre-exascale and petascale supercomputers should be primarily for public civilian research and innovation purposes, for any user from academia, industry or the public sector. The Joint Undertaking should be allowed to carry out some limited economic activities for private purposes. Access should be granted to users established in the Union or an Associated Country to Horizon 2020. The access rights should be equitable to any user and allocated in a transparent manner. The Governing Board should define the access rights to the
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 23 a (new) (23a) Access time to the supercomputers should not be proportionate to financial contributions, and a level playing field for users from all Member States, scientists and industries in the Union should be ensured.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 24 (24)
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 25 (25) The Joint Undertaking governance should be assured by two bodies: a Governing Board, and an Industrial and Scientific Advisory Board. The Governing board should be composed of Representatives of the Union and Participating States. It should be responsible for strategic policy making and funding decisions related to the activities of the Joint Undertaking, in particular for all the public procurement activities. The Industrial and Scientific Advisory Board should include mainly representatives of academia and in a lower measure, relevant industry as users and technology suppliers. It should provide independent advice to the Governing Board on the Strategic Research Agenda and on the acquisition and operation of the supercomputers owned by the Joint Undertaking.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 26 Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 26 (26) Voting rights
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 28 a (new) (28a) The Data protection and Privacy Regulation of the European Union should apply for any supercomputer owned fully or in part by the JU, or for any supercomputer making available access time to the JU.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 28 b (new) (28b) The provisions of Horizon 2020 on intellectual property rights, transfer of ownership of IPR, licensing and exploitation should apply, as a minimum, in order to protect the European Union`s economic interests.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 29 a (new) (29a) Taken together, the investments should fully cover the total cost of ownership, including all costs relating to the provision of a full service.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 30 a (new) (30a) Underlines that HPC initiative providers operating in the Union must compete on an even playing field, with the same rules applicable to all.
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 30 a (new) (30a) Care must be taken to ensure that ETP and PRACE cooperation with the Joint Undertaking does not give rise to a conflict of interest.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 31 a (new) (31a) Broad participation across the Union and fair and reasonable access for non-EU actors is important in order to realise the full potential of a European supercomputer capable of contributing to European excellent science and regional competitiveness. In this regard, all potential synergies between EuroHPC and EU research programmes should be explored. Furthermore, underlines the importance of fully integrating the EuroHPC with existing leading research and development structures, so as to maximise efficiency and facilitate its use.
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 32 (32) Provision of financial support to activities from Connecting Europe Facility programme or other relevant programs should comply with rules of this programme.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 34 a (new) (34a) Encourages the Commission and the Member States to communicate the economic potential of High Performance Computing to SMEs in particular.
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) The synergies with other EU or national financing instruments and programmes should be promoted. Horizon 2020 should contribute to the closing of the research and innovation divide within the Union by promoting synergies with the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). Therefore the Joint Undertaking should seek to develop close interactions with the ESIF, which can specifically help to strengthen local, regional and national research and innovation capabilities.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 40 (40) All calls for proposals and all calls for tender under the Joint Undertaking should take into account the duration of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme and Connecting Europe Facility Programme, as appropriate, except in duly justified cases. For the period not covered by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme and the Connecting Europe Facility Programme, appropriate adjustments should be made taking in to account the MFF for the period after 2020, with the aim at continuing the activities of the Joint Undertaking.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 40 a (new) (40a) Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen the existing work of the European Cloud Partnership based on the existing pillars of PRACE and GEANT and to recognise their vital complementary roles in realising a EuroHPC ecosystem.
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 41 a (new) (41a) Since High Performance Computing is an intensive and energy- consuming activity due to, inter alia, the cooling process, the hosting entity should be able to rely as much as possible on renewable energy for its functioning, this aspect should be taken into account in the selection process of the Joint Undertaking.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 41 a (new) (41a) The Joint Undertaking should guarantee that the High Performance Computing supercomputers in the Union are accessible exclusively to entities which comply with Union law on data protection, privacy and security.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 42 a (new) (42a) Believes that the full potential of cloud computing for Europe can only be realised when data can flow freely across the Union with clear rules and play an increasingly important role in the European economy.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 1 – paragraph 5 (5) The seat of the Joint Undertaking shall be located in
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7 (7) “hosting entity” means a legal entity established in a Member State participating in the Joint Undertaking which includes facilities to host and operate a petascale or pre-exascale supercomputer.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11 (11) ‘Private Members’ means the private associations and businesses that are members of the Joint Undertaking.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) to provide scientists
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) to provide scientists, industry and the public sector from the Union or an Associated Country to Horizon 2020 with latest High Performance Computing and Data Infrastructure and support the development of its technologies and its applications across a wide range of fields for civilian use.
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) to provide scientists, industry, including SMEs and the public sector from the Union or an Associated Country to Horizon 2020 with latest High Performance Computing and Data Infrastructure and support the development of its technologies and its applications across a wide range of fields.
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) to provide scientists, industry and the public sector from the Union or an Associated Country to Horizon 2020 with latest High Performance Computing and Data Infrastructure and support the development of its technologies and its applications across a wide range of fields
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) to provide a framework for acquisition of an integrated world-class pre-exascale supercomputing and data
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) to provide a framework for acquisition of an integrated world-class petascale and pre-exascale supercomputing and data infrastructure in the Union;
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c (c) to provide Union level coordination and adequate financial resources to support the development and acquisition of such infrastructure, which will be accessible to users from the public and private sector
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d (d) to support the development of an integrated High Performance Computing ecosystem in the Union covering all scientific and industrial value chain segments notably hardware, software, applications, services, engineering, interconnections, know-how and skills, in order to strengthen the Union as a global centre for innovations, contributing to competitiveness and enhanced research and development capacity.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d (d) to support the development of an integrated High Performance Computing ecosystem in the Union covering all scientific and industrial value chain segments, notably hardware, software, applications, services, engineering, interconnections, know-how and skills, taking into account the shared values underlying the European project that serve to define a European digital identity.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d (d) to support the development of an integrated High Performance Computing ecosystem in the Union covering all civilian scientific and industrial value chain segments notably hardware, software, applications, services, engineering, interconnections, know-how and skills.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new) (da) to enable synergies and provide added value of cooperation between Participating Member States and other actors.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d (d) to build and operate a leading-class integrated supercomputing and data infrastructure across the Union
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point e (e) to provide access to High Performance Computing-based infrastructures and services to a wide range of users from the research and scientific community as well as the industry
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point f (f) to bridge the gap between research and development and the delivery of exascale High Performance Computing systems reinforcing the digital technology supply chain in the Union, closing the technology gap vis-à-vis international competitors and enabling the acquisition by the Joint Undertaking of leadership- class supercomputers;
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point f (f) to bridge the gap between research and development and the delivery of exascale High Performance Computing systems reinforcing the digital technology supply chain in the Union and enabling the acquisition by the Joint Undertaking of
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point h (h) to interconnect and federate regional, national and European High Performance Computing supercomputers and other computing systems, data centres
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point i (i) to increase the innovation potential of industry, and in particular of SMEs, using advanced High Performance Computing infrastructures and services, particularly national High Performance Computing/Supercomputing centres;
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point i (i) to increase the innovation potential of industry, and in particular of
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point j (j) to improve understanding of High Performance Computing and contribute to reducing skills gaps in the Union related to High Performance Computing, building on the effects of digitising society, encouraging requalification and a balanced representation of men and women in the High Performance Computing career paths;
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point k a (new) (ka) to improve and secure the technological and scientific autonomy of the Union and its Member States.
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) EUR 386 000 000 from the Horizon
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 (1) The Participating States shall make a contribution to the operational and administrative costs of the Joint Undertaking for at least EUR 486 000 000, including EUR
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 (1) The Joint Undertaking shall entrust the operation of each individual petascale or pre-
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 2 (2) Petascale or Pre-exascale supercomputers shall be located in a Participating State that is a Member State of the Union. A Member State shall not host more than one pre-
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 3 – introductory part (3) The hosting entity shall be selected through a fair and transparent process by the Governing Board, based, inter alia on the following criteria:
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new) (aa) geographic balance.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 3 – point c (c) experience of the hosting entity in installing
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new) (ca) high level of data protection, privacy and cybersecurity, including a state-of-art management of risks and threats and resilience against cyber- attacks;
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 3 – point g a (new) (ga) the percentage of renewable energy consumed in the region where the hosting facility is located;
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – title Acquisition and ownership of the petascale and pre-
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 2 (2) The Joint Undertaking shall be the owner of the petascale or pre-exascale supercomputers and associated infrastructure, if such infrastructure is not already owned by the hosting entity.
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new) (3a) Access to the supercomputers shall be granted exclusively for the purpose of civilian research and innovation activities, with care being taken at all times to ensure that the potential for commercial use is not restricted.
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