Innovation Action in Low Latency and High Bandwidth Interconnects
HORIZON JU Innovation Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-INTER-02-01
- Programme
- Innovation Action in Low Latency and High Bandwidth Interconnects
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- August 1, 2023
- Deadline
- January 31, 2024
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €30,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- €20,000,000
- Max Grant Amount
- €30,000,000
- Expected Number of Grants
- 1
- Keywords
- HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-INTER-02-01HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-INTER-02Computer hardware and architectureHigh performance computing
Description
- Contribution towards European technological sovereignty, by establishing, maintaining and implementing a strategic R&I roadmap that fosters the European capabilities to design, develop and produce inter-node interconnects.
- Delivering scalable energy efficient inter-node interconnect for exascale and post exascale supercomputers. The development of European interconnect should prepare the technology for its future uptake and integration in post-exascale supercomputers to be acquired at a later stage by the EuroHPC JU targeting systems incorporating European technologies.
- A suitable software stack, including configuration, installation and management tools.
The aim is to support the R&I technology development of innovative and competitive European HPC inter-node interconnect technology.
- Develop a roadmap for European scalable inter-node interconnects targeting HPC exascale and post-exascale systems. The roadmap should take into account the EuroHPC supported work in this area such as the components being developed in the EUROHPC RED-SEA project as well as in the area of processors and accelerators.
- Develop the inter-node interconnect hardware addressing design, development, testing and tape-out as well as integration in test-beds. The work should foster synergies with the EuroHPC supported work in the area of processors and accelerators.
- Develop the software, installation, configuration and management tools for the developed interconnect, driven by the needs of relevant HPC workflows and application requirements.
- Address issues like high bandwidth, low latency, power efficiency, virtualisation, scalability, reliability, security, etc.
Proposals should clearly demonstrate that all partners in the consortium have a significant and justified role, including appropriate deliverables under their responsibility which cover the specific contributions of each partner. Due to the specific focus of the action, the consortium is expected to include not more than five partners to ensure an efficient and effective implementation and delivery of the objectives.
The JU considers that a contribution from the JU of up to EUR 30 million, matched by the Participating States with a similar amount, and a duration of 3 years would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nevertheless this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals with another duration or requesting other amounts.
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
The page limit of the application is 70 pages.
2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
The following additional eligibility criteria apply:
All partners of a consortium should contribute with at least 10% of the overall personnel resources.
In order to achieve the expected outcomes, and safeguard the Union’s strategic assets, interests, autonomy, and security, it is important to avoid a situation of technological dependency on a non-EU source, in a global context that requires the EU to take action to build on its strengths, and to carefully assess and address any strategic weaknesses, vulnerabilities and high-risk dependencies which put at risk the attainment of its ambitions. Therefore, participation is limited to legal entities established in Member States and legal entities established in countries associated to Horizon Europe that are members of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Proposals including entities established in countries outside the scope specified in the call/topic/action will be ineligible.
For the duly justified and exceptional reasons listed in the paragraph above, in order to guarantee the protection of the strategic interests of the Union and its Member States, entities established in an eligible country listed above, but which are directly or indirectly controlled by a non-eligible country or by a non-eligible country entity, may not participate in the action unless it can be demonstrated, by means of guarantees approved by the eligible country of establishment, that their participation to the action would not negatively impact the Union’s strategic, assets, interests, autonomy, or security.
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes
The granting authority can fund a maximum of one project.
If funding for projects funded under topic is coming from more than one EU programme, this action is an EU Synergy grant.
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Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes
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Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual
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Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes
Grants award under this topic will have to submit the following deliverable(s):
- a development roadmap with a sufficient number of control points (milestones, deliverables, etc.) that provide the granting authority with a detailed assessment of the project progress, at least every six months
- fully functional prototype (tape-out) of inter-node interconnect hardware capable of delivering competitive performance for exascale and post-exascale supercomputers
- regular reports on latency, power efficiency, virtualisation, scalability, reliability, security as soon as a suitable testing environment is available
- software stack, including configuration, installation and management tools
- fully functional pilot for the developed inter-node interconnect hardware and software stack, demonstrated by relevant benchmarks and acceptance tests
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is only funding up to 35% of eligible costs for Innovation Actions (except for non-profit legal entities, where a rate of 50% applies). Applicants are invited to contact the competent national funding agencies to inquire about the availability of matching national funds and specific national eligibility conditions before submitting a proposal.
Beneficiaries will be subject to the additional access rights. Access rights relating to Participating States refer to EuroHPC Participating States as defined in the eligibility conditions of the call.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes
Specific conditions
7. Specific conditions: described in the EuroHPC Decision No 10/2023 - Amending the Joint Undertaking's Work Programme and Budget for the year 2023
Applicants are not required to include in their proposal a plan for the dissemination of the results as the action focuses on the development of an industrial grade high-bandwith interconnect system for supercomputers. The dissemination and promotion of the final product are not necessary to achieve the objectives of the action.
Documents
Call documents:
Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System
Standard application form (HE RIA, IA)
Standard evaluation form — will be used with the necessary adaptations
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA)
MGA
Additional documents:
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 3. Research Infrastructures
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 7. Digital, Industry and Space
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 13. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme and Rules for Participation Regulation 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
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