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# Questions by anastasiia.andriievska@enccs.se

This is the Q&A page.

## This page

-  https://hackmd.io/@XbjazxuYQkuWcijZDPvbQw/Skm7atUmh/edit


### Participats

- thor.wikfeldt@enccs.se
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## Schedule (updated)

### May 17th (8:30 - 9:00, 30 minutes):
- 8:30 - 9:00

### May 17th (10:00-11:00, 1 hour):
- 10:00 - 10:10	Updates
- 10:10 - 10:45

### May 24th (10:00-11:00, 1 hour):
- 10:00 - 10:10	Updates
- 10:10 - 10:45

### Sep 18th (12:45-13:15, 30 mins)
 
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# Questions and Answers

### Open Questions

- tasks?
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- TEFs/EDIH common chat or just via email?
    - kommer

- JuliaIntro?
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- Hackmd subscription? 1 - one paid account 
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- ChatGPT subscription?
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- Add page on ENCCS.se about EuroCC on EBRAINS Subcommunity
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- Post about Dardel Inaguration plus photos of the system
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- Buy our own Quantum computer.
    - unfortunately not possible. We can start to use EU and Swedish QCs when they become available 
        - next?: what about for general quantum training in order to be prepared for EU Q and can benchmark as well as know vital basics?
        - Anastasiia (A) will contact Tor ICE

- Are you going to publish the Qblog?
    - absolutely! where is it? we have a folder `Blog texts` under `ENCCS / Dissemination` where we can put our blog posts
        - in the chat and https://hackmd.io/@XbjazxuYQkuWcijZDPvbQw/BJWgoLdQ2/edit
        - it is ongoing
    
- I am curious of outcomes of meetings with: 
    - Director of Science and Training at INCF about synergies and collaborations and Meeting with Swedish coordinator for CitCom.ai
        - i spoke with Mathew Abrams at INCF. He told me about what they do and i told him about ENCCS. He found it interesting to hear about us and the services we provide, and we agreed to be in touch later. So mostly just an information exchange meeting. Would you be interested in some collaboration with them? at least i think we should pursue to integrate ENCCS training in their training platform, https://training.incf.org/
        - Of course, International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) is basis for Human Brain Project, EBRAINS, TEF Health. About trainigs – yes!
            *Standards and Best Practices (SBPs). The mission of the INCF, is to serve as a standard organization promoting neuroscience community developed standards and best practices that are open and FAIR. INCF encourages the development of the community standards through special interest groups (SIGs) and working groups, supported by online as well as in-person courses and workshops.*
            - in case i hadn't mentioned it before, we ran a CodeRefinery workshop to INCF some time in 2017-2018. They were very interested in that material and wanted to add it to their training platform, but i don't think that happened
            - Thor will contact INCF again 
            
    - AI TEF SCC (AI Testing and Experimental Facilities for Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities)
        - this is citcom.ai right? I spoke to Petra Dalunde. She's in Kista. she wanted to know more about ENCCS and how we work with SMEs. Their TEF is involved in HPC, but those WP are in Denmark (?) and not in Sweden. I helper her get in touch with one particular company (Nilar)
        - A bit more about TEF HPC in Denmark? Mb we can do smth similar or collaborate with them. I know that Anders Gavlerfrom Kista is also responsible for TEF Smart Cities.
            - don't know anything about the TEF in Denmark. My suggestion is that you talk yourself to Petra Dalunde! You can be in charge of figuring out how we can work with TEFs (but then let's discuss what you come up with)
                - Anastasiia will contact Petra
        
    -  Head of Training at SciLifeLab Training Hub to discuss synergies and future collaborations.
        - we can have a joint meeting with Jessica soon. I also need to discuss PerMedCoE with her, if we manage to join it. We should also make sure to integrate ENCCS workshops into the TESS platform.
        - Yes. Have you booked the meeting for next week as you said?
            - not yet, she's away for travels next week so it'll have to be week after. I urgently need to talk to her about PerMedCoE so i have a short meeting with her 13:30-14 today 5/5
                - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tgq0zL0AVY
                - https://ngisweden.scilifelab.se/2021/12/phil-ewels-of-ngi-interviewed-by-digital-halsa-about-the-usage-of-aws-cloud/
                    - ANSWER Doodle
                    - What are we going to do?

    - summary of these meetings: they've been mostly information exchange and no concrete collaborations have been initiated
        - Because Swedes need to be a bit pushed.
            - that might be true, but we are a small team and have limited capacity to follow up on a lot of different fronts. Often these information-sharing meetings are valuable on their own, one gets to know about the other project and keeps that in mind in the future. Such interactions often lead to someone getting in touch later when a specific idea/need emerges


- T23.7 Interactive national competence map on ENCCS portal. What does this task include?
    - details not worked out, something we haven't had time for so far. But would be cool to list all stakeholders, all relevant organisations and centres, and creating a map were people can click to get more information on each
    - Yes, with Tableau like that UK Q map.
        - sure, any suitable platform will work! how do we need to structure the data? would be good if we could use json or similar format for the data we want to show on the map 
            - ongoing Task Force 
  
- Finns det en websida för ENCCS på RISE?
    - det gör tyvärr inte det! vi måste få till en projektsida för ENCCS på ri.se asap
    - Yes.

- Use materials and just update them. NVIDIA?
    - absolutely. I've taught workshops with other material than my own, including Software Carpentry and this DL lesson: https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/deep-learning-intro/
    - Nice. So I have the materials for those 4 topics. I went through some of them briefly – it is a good level and info. Maybe Thomas would like to be a co-tutor for Edge lessons.
        - would you want to teach this? Thomas who, Palodas?
            - Thomas Computing Continuum 

- ENCCS Quantum phase? Vilken bild dvs vilken riktning som är bra att ta och vilka industrikontakter vi borde följa upp?
    - jag ser det mest som att vi bör följa utvecklingen, vara väl informerade om vad som händer och vilket intresse det finns för QC (via årlig tjänsteenkät), och ge training. Jag känner inte till några företag som är intresserade av att verkligen börja köra på QC. Vi bör också koppla det här till QC aktiviteten på RISE, vi får hoppas att Erik snart har tid att prata med oss
    - Om du känner inte då det betyder bara att du var inte intresserad tillräckligt mycket av detta ämne. Jag skulle vilja ha ENCCS Q blog på RISE Yammer plus samma info på ENCCS sida. Om vi väntar på Erik K då vi missar Q utvecklingen alls. Men vi kan vänta. Utvecklingen följs, finns massa nyheter – allt finns hos mina resurser. Och vi har planeringen att följa där tydligt står gällande Q.
        - om du formulerar konkret och skapar innehåll så kan vi absolut skapa Q sida på enccs.se
            - addera webbsidan for SQS


- Share my calender?
    - please clarify
    - ![](https://i.imgur.com/Vo7hNmS.png)
    - You can see all my meetings and I can see yours, which can help to manage things more efficiently.
        - maybe, remind me later 

- It would be great if we can track applications that came from Sweden.
    - i agree, but we can't do much more than write to Lilit at EuroHPC and ask about the status of a particular application
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- From QR: Scientific publications within the reported 3-month period 
    - if we for some reason become co-authors on a paper which is relevant to the NCC. The idea is not for us to actively do research and publish papers as part of ENCCS

- Champion on Website. QEdu example
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- Add more things? https://enccs.se/external-training-resources/
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- Bootcamp - utkast?
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- AWS Fail over SciLifeLab
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- https://www.thinglink.com/blog/med-escaperoom/#.YeHtJFjMK3I
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### Questions from Thor to Anastasiia

- when you mention establishing collaborations with different entities, what do you have in mind?
    - Everything related to the plan. If you remember, during the Airbus meeting, Björn indicated that RISE has all possible ways/means for collaborations = flexibility.
        - but when we're thinking about a specific organisation/person/initiative/company, it must be clear exactly what we can provide

- if we ran a PoC project on AI with an SME, how would you be interested and able to contribute? in other words, would you be able to take their problem and develop a solution based on deep learning or similar?
    - Yes. Alternatively, connect those experts who have relevant experience.

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### Closed Questions

- Decision-making space. 
    - please clarify
    - When I receive a task or contribute to a task, how many of final decision-making can I have in case there are no time for argumentation?
        - i don't think i can give general guidelines, it'll have to depend on the circumstances and nature of the task. You'll have significant autonomy but some decisions should be brought to me first. I hope this will get clearer with time

- Could you please elaborate? From the objectives for Work Package 23: NCC Sweden: T23.1 • Explore the sustainability potentials by testing different possibilities in collaboration with the advisory board. • Explore the potential of being a legal entity and analyse the pros and cons of that.
    - sustainability here means a way for ENCCS to exist long-term possibly without EU funding. I should discuss this with the AB, i will set up an online meeting with them in June. But my idea on sustainability is clear: our long-term future should be within RISE. We establish an "HPC at RISE", similar to "AI at RISE" and the Cybersecurity center. We commercialise the training portfolio, offer HPC consultancy, bring in money by R&D funding from Vinnova and other funders, and joining consortia (this is already happening) 
    - With AB? Who are they? What consortia?
        - advisory board, that i mentioned before. Jessica from SciLifeLab, Magnus from Erco Pharma, Roberto from Algorithmiq, Matteo from Northvol, Andreas from Germany 

- https://www.quantumbusinesseurope.com/?utm_campaign=QBE23&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=256799420&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8rxJM7NkX_IkdaZ9CYOkNYIu_JoowqwmHbVS2TbiKy1RXXTJp1ThpmbAPPlgVNZ50eMmtFQnYhWjhq11i2B0xFD4OoLw&utm_content=256799420&utm_source=hs_email 
    *HOSTING AND OPERATING THE FIRST EUROPEAN QUANTUM COMPUTERS*
    Sabine MEHR, Chief Quantum Projects Officer, GENCI
    - please clarify
    - HOSTING AND OPERATING THE FIRST **EUROPEAN** QUANTUM COMPUTERS during that conference in September.
        - are you saying you want to go?

-  Can my spouse officially with funding from RISE/ENCCS join me for working trips? Priority for answer: low. I am asking just because I am curious and I have experience that in other than science domains it always counts that one can not travel without a spouse. For me, it is not a problem, I am just wondering. 
    - nope, not possible
    - If it is your decision it is okay, but are you sure it is clearly stated in EuroCC/RISE guidelines? 
        - this is simply never done. We're working in a poorly funded environment with taxpayer money! A private company can decide to fund spouses but it's unethical to do it with the funding sources we have

- Did you mean to join this meeting with Erik https://www.dataductus.com/ ?
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