EBRAINS Support for EuroHPC Applications

Are you interested in using Europe's most powerful HPC machines? 

At EBRAINS, we support you in preparing competitive applications for access to EuroHPC computational resources for your neuroscience research or tool and service development. Our support service assists you throughout the proposal preparation process. This includes:

• Identification of suitable EuroHPC systems and access calls
• Pre-assessment of software and workflow maturity
• Guidance on benchmark design and execution
• Estimation of computational resource requirements
• Support with the technical and scientific sections of your application
• Internal review of draft proposals by relevant technical experts

The service aims to help you strengthen the technical quality and feasibility of your proposal before submission.

Technical Support and Benchmarking

As part of the pre-assessment process, we will evaluate your software to determine its readiness for large-scale HPC environments, and will identify suitable EuroHPC systems based on the requirements of your project.

Follow-up support may include:

• Recommendations for benchmark configurations
• Estimation of core-hour and storage requirements
• Guidance on weak and strong scaling tests
• Advice on performance evaluation and interpretation

Where appropriate, small-scale test allocations on EBRAINS-hosted HPC systems can be arranged to generate benchmarking data for proposal preparation.

Proposal Preparation Support

Our service provides support during the drafting phase of your application, including assistance with the following:

• Scientific impact statements
• Technical justification
• Resource justification
• Integration of benchmark results into the proposal

Draft applications may undergo an internal review process involving feedback from domain and technical experts.

Eligibility

Our service is open to:

• Researchers from the neuroscience community
• Developers planning to utilize or deploy EBRAINS tools and services
• Users preparing proposals for EuroHPC access calls related to brain research.

How to contact us

For questions or to request support, please contact the EBRAINS for EuroHPC Application Support team by email: base-infra-resources@ebrains.eu