# 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
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## 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](https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=SSJJxaCEr0O9KaeJLpS1t9VBuJSkzstJk1Yzo-L1C2RUOFVKSURUWlI2QVBMTVMyRkhHQTRYSU9QVy4u)
- 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