A couple of weeks ago the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) announced the consortium that will develop the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP).
This ambitious effort will deliver a ‘one-stop shop’ for researchers using the EuroHPC supercomputers, as well as the upcoming EuroHPC AI Factories and quantum computers, built with open source software.
Ghent University is part of this consortium to integrate EESSI into the EuroHPC Federation Platform as common software stack.
Henrik Nortamo (CSC), the technical lead of the EFP consortium, gave an excellent 20-minute talk on EFP last weekend in the 10th HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom at FOSDEM’25 in Brussels. Slides and recording of the talk are available here.
The EFP consortium¶
The consortium that will develop the EuroHPC Federation Platform consists of:
- CSC in Finland, the Hosting Entity for LUMI, as lead partner;
- IT4Innovations in Czech Republic, the Hosting Entitory for Karolina;
- Ghent University in Belgium;
- University of Tartu in Estonia;
- GÉANT, the pan-European data network for the research and education community;
- NORDUnet, a Nordic collaboration connecting national research and education network;
A productive kickoff meeting was held on 16+17 January 2025 in Helsinki, Finland.
Each of the components of the federated platform were presented by and to the consortium partners, and practical aspects of executing the planned work in the coming months and years were discussed.
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