Notes from EuroCC2 AHM Slovakia 2024

Luxembourg Review Debrief

• Question to ask someone from PMT: can data be exported from the digital TPR tool? (Barbara hasn't answered so far)

• the 5% rule about PoC projects

  • still not clear

• first phase final payment not yet paid. Remaining problems have to do with ineligible costs

• restricted travelling to other countries other than those affiliated with EuroCC projects due to funding issues

• POP3 CoE is interested in more use cases

  • we should find them!
  • preferentially industry related
  • BCPNNSim2.0 will be possible later on because currently it's just serial
  • use cases need to be parallelised and/or GPU ported already, in C/C++ or Fortran, maybe Python/Julia, does not need to be open source
  • AI use cases will now be especially targeted
  • We should make this visible on enccs.se
  • https://pop-coe.eu/request-service-form
  • ideas:
    • VeloxChem?
    • invite applicants via our newsletter?

• Collaborations between CoEs and NCCs

  • CoEs propose the topic and share with NCCs and ask who will get onboard.
  • Planning meeting with CoEs and NCCs for detailed arrangments of training events
  • Code licensing issues
    • for commercial code/packages, how to handle the training events as it is difficult to share the code with participants
  • how to attract SMEs and industrial clients to attend training events
    • CoEs can propose the requirements for the training events and NCCs can try to dissiminate among preferencial groups to attract potential interesting SMEs, industrial clients and public administration
    • consider to have multiple training events on the similar topic but at varied levels, similar to a CI/CD format

• multiple people are interested in the training-the-trainer programe

• Siegfried (Castiel2) is interested in the RSE things, and seek more collaborations on relevant training events

• there is an onboarding one-pager on BSCW with links to all the important documents

• PMT will organise onboarding sessions every once in a while

  • make sure that Ashwin, Erik and Francesco attend one

Funding Information Session

• 350000€ total budget available (~10k per NCC on average)
• financial guidelines available on BSCW
• external experts only eligible if no internal similar competence exists
• most preferred option: invoice USTUTT directly with the "key label" by the service provider ([e-mail])
  • second option: invoice beneficiary, then apply for reimbursement

Cont. CoE/NCC collaboration

• upgraded competance map
  • cluster infrastructure and management
  • big data and AI
  • buidling/depolying parallel programs
  • quantum computing
  • domain specific software
• PMT stars the knowledge database on BSCW
• questionair about Competence Map
• overall objective of wp2

CoEs – Impact generaation & Future plan

• slow end results, we need successful stories
• developing end user applications (funding?)
  • letter of support
• support adoption (training)
  • testimonials
• NCCs: track lack in user knowledge(?)
• CoEs provide specific training
• what info do CoEs need
  • sustainability
  • industry-relevant?
  • large scale industry usage (exascale)
  • benchmarking
  • budget

WPL session

• completely dedicated to PoC discussion. Private notes taken since sensitive info

Thematic clusters

• NCC/CoE collaboration to give greater visibility to CoE services, more services available for NCCs to provide