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About EPICURE

Project Overview

EPICURE (European HPC Application Support Project) is a EuroHPC Joint Undertaking initiative launched in early 2024 to enhance user support for Europe's supercomputing systems. The project brings together a pan-European consortium to provide high-level (Level 2 and 3) application support services, enabling scientists and industry to fully exploit cutting-edge High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources across Europe.

Mission and Goals

The primary mission of EPICURE is to ensure that European researchers and innovators can make the most of EuroHPC supercomputers by receiving advanced application support. This means helping users fully utilize the available HPC systems through specialized assistance with code porting, optimization, and scalability improvements.

Key goals include: - Establishing a distributed HPC support service drawing on expertise from all major European supercomputing centers - Assisting projects in porting their applications to new HPC architectures and optimizing code for performance - Fostering a knowledge-sharing platform for continuous training of HPC users - Developing a European HPC Application Support Portal as a one-stop shop for information and help

Consortium Members

EPICURE is carried out by a consortium of 16 organizations from 14 different countries, encompassing all the current and future EuroHPC supercomputing hosting entities:

  • CSC – IT Center for Science (Finland) - Project Coordinator
  • Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) (Spain)
  • CINECA (Italy)
  • IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center (Czechia)
  • IZUM (Institute of Information Science) (Slovenia)
  • Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) (Slovenia)
  • LuxProvide (Luxembourg)
  • INESC TEC (Portugal)
  • Sofia Tech Park (Bulgaria)
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZ Jülich) (Germany)
  • GENCI (France)
  • CINES (France)
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
  • University of Antwerp (Belgium)
  • CYFRONET AGH (Poland)
  • DeIC (Denmark)

Contact Information

For more information about EPICURE, please visit the official website at https://epicure-hpc.eu or contact the project coordination team at CSC – IT Center for Science.

Acknowledgments

EPICURE is funded under the European Union's EuroHPC Joint Undertaking framework, with a total project budget of €10 million over a 48-month period. The EuroHPC JU (via the EU's Digital Europe Programme and contributions from member states) provides 50% of the funding, while the remainder is co-financed by the participating countries and organizations in the consortium.