| Abstract (english) | Advanced computing relies on state-of-the-art computer systems, platforms, and algorithms in solving computer- and data-intensive scientific and engineering challenges. Advanced computing has vastly improved data analysis both in science and in the humanities. Many of the recent discoveries would not have been possible without the use of high-performance computing (HPC) and high-performance data analytics (HPDA) infrastructures, as well as platforms enabling advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.
SRCE offers several advanced computing services: HPC resource Isabella, HTC Cloud, and JupyterLab services. HPC resource Isabella provides over 3,000 processor cores and 12 GPUs together with over 50 scientific applications ready for use. HTC Cloud is a cloud-computing platform that allows the users to provision flexible computing platform with high computing and storage requirements. A common use of HTC Cloud is ad-hoc provisioning of virtual machines for interactive data processing and provisioning of larger systems such as computer clusters or big data analytics platforms. JupyterLab services allow the users to instantiate Jupyter notebooks—popular web-based interactive environment for running data science, scientific computing, and machine learning workflows.
European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is an EU initiative aiming to build large-scale supercomputer infrastructure that will provide significant HPC capacity for European scientists, private individuals, and industry.In the first phase, EuroHPC will build three pre-exascale and five petascale supercomputers providing aggregated performance of over 650 PFLOPS.In parallel, National Competence Centres in the Framework of EuroHPC (EuroCC) project aim to build National Competence Centers (NCCs) that will promote HPC and support researchers in accessing EuroHPC resources.
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) aims to build federated multi-disciplinary environment for publishing, finding, using, and processing research data. EOSC will bridge the existing and emerging research infrastructures, research data collections, and innovative thematic services allowing the researchers, companies, and private individuals to collaborate and work across country and discipline borders.
Besides the access to the generic services (compute, storage), the researchers can also access thematic services on-boarded to EOSC. There are several thematic infrastructures available for the humanities and social sciences, which are supported by EOSC. For Arts & Humanities, there is DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities), which aims to enhance and support digitally enabled research and teaching across these disciplines. CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) is a research infrastructure inspired by the vision that all digital language resources and tools from all over Europe and beyond should be accessible through a single online environment for the support of researchers in the humanities and social sciences. There is also E-RIHS (European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science), which supports research on heritage interpretation, preservation, documentation, and management. |
