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Dear colleagues,
We are excited to kick off 2025 with enthusiasm and determination, and it is with great pleasure that we present our first newsletter of the year. The landscape of High-Performance Computing (HPC) in Europe continues to evolve, and we are proud to play a central role in this transformation.
This month, NumPEx contributed to the French response to the AI Factory call funded by Euro HPC. The response to this call is expected in early March. The concept of an AI Factory is to bring together, around a EuroHPC supercomputer adapted/optimized for AI needs, a set of ecosystems and services (training, support, easier access to these computing resources, provision of data warehouses with data-related services, European and international collaborations...) all of which serve general AI needs, but also more specifically for each AI Factory, around certain AI application areas (called “business verticals”).
On the global stage, our efforts continue to extend beyond Europe: the InPEx conference will take place in Japan this April, providing an exceptional platform for international collaboration and the exchange of expertise in HPC.
Looking ahead, our General Assembly on March 12-13 will focus on key topics such as the convergence of AI and HPC, software production within NumPEx, and the digital continuum. These discussions will be essential for shaping the next steps of our program.
We are also launching the first NumPEx call for projects to support advances in HPC, high-performance data analysis, and AI. With a budget of 4 million euros, this initiative will fund projects in three areas: AI methods and algorithms for HPC, programming models for accelerated architectures, and workflows for scientific data analysis, including the SKA project. Applications are open until April 1, 2025.
In this February, we invite you to discover the latest updates from NumPEx in this newsletter.
Enjoy your reading!
The program directors |
