Community Centres of Excellence
Funds around 10 consortia to push scientific and industrial software codes to exascale and AI-optimised performance on European supercomputers.
Three concrete deliverables come with a fixed submission schedule regardless of the topic's other content: a data management plan due at the start, at mid-term, and again near the end of the project; a communication plan due six months after the grant begins, delivered together with the dissemination-and-exploitation plan; and that dissemination-and-exploitation plan itself, due both at that six-m…
This topic wants Community Centres of Excellence that scale up existing application codes toward exascale or post-exascale/advanced-AI performance, targeting scientific or industrial grand challenges such as fusion energy, cancer research, battery storage or AI-driven cybersecurity. It expects proposals to define target user communities, deliver highly scalable and energy-efficient code, run training activities with AI Factories and National Competence Centres, and link with sibling Transversal CoE and Lighthouse Codes topics.
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