Lighthouse Codes for HPC Applications
Funds about 8 teams to consolidate, rewrite or extend existing high-performance computing software into a single globally competitive 'Lighthouse' code.
Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are not stated on this topic page itself; they sit in the Work Programme's general annexes, same as admissibility and financial-capacity conditions. The stricter-than-usual eligible-country limits on this topic are explained by strategic-autonomy and security concerns: EuroHPC treats these flagship codes as critical infrastructure, sometimes touching sensitiv…
This topic wants proposals that develop, consolidate or extend exactly one 'Lighthouse Code' — an application, SDK or software library with an established user base, professional development practices, documented APIs and a committed code steward — to reach exascale or AI-ready performance. It expects work such as merging multiple domain codes into one, porting to new accelerator architectures, or adding post-exascale/AI capabilities, aligned with grand challenges like fusion energy, batteries, genomics-based treatment or cybersecurity.
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