International Collaboration on AI Factories and HPC-AI
Proposals are invited for a Coordination and Support Action to actively participate in the organisational and technical activities of the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) [1] to guide and prepare European HPC for the convergence of supercomputing and AI in massive GenAI models for science. Proposals should demonstrate a clear link with the TPC, aiming at creating extreme - scale state-of-the-art trustworthy and reliable generative AI models and to address and discuss the related key challenges to support the advancing of AI for science using HPC.
Main activities:
- Coordinate and establish a EU-level representation in the governance of the TPC, ensuring the EU’s views in strategic decisions and contributing to EU’s sovereignty.
- Support the organisation and active participation of the EU stakeholders in technical activities such as roadmaps, working groups, dedicated workgroups, etc. of the initiative.
- Analyse the relevant research and operational challenges and produce and maintain high-quality research roadmaps with recommendations for research actions at the European level related to the TPC. Engage with and disseminate the results to the relevant European stakeholders and communities related to the TPC, to EuroHPC actors such as the RIAG, INFRAG, ETP4HPC, BDVA, and to other relevant projects and initiatives such as AI Factories, DARE FPA on RISC-V hardware, EuroHPC Hosting Entities, HPC Centres of Excellence (CoEs), etc.
The action should consist of a core consortium of key European players in the related domains, and should support the participation of individuals from other scientific and industrial players and organisations in Europe that are considered necessary for the success of the goals of the proposal and related to the main activities of the TPC.
Only one proposal will be funded. The JU considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the JU of up to EUR 1.5 million, and a duration of 3 years would allow these specific outcomes to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals with another duration or requesting other amounts. The funding rate is 100%.