The vision of the Romanian National HPC Competence Centre (RoNCC) is to establish a single reference and contact point for academia, industry and public administration. All activities are focused and orchestrated as a single know-how hub, both for academia and industry. By mapping the national HPC/Big Data/AI technical existing competences with the future needs, RoNCC will establish collaborations between these needs and available competences in the Romanian and European ecosystem.
Help us understand your needs! We perform an analysis to better identify and assess your needs at different levels in terms of HPC, HPDA and AI in order to provide appropriate services and resources for your activities. If you want to help us in the national assessment of skills, competencies and resources regarding HPC, HPDA and AI, contact us for more details and require login credentials for the RoNCC questionnaire.
The Romanian HPC National Center – RoNCC established within the EuroCC framework is designed to prioritize support based on: Needs of academic users with large scale allocations; The current industrial usage (SMEs and startups) of HPC and their future HPC and Artificial Intelligence (AI) needs; Needs for training and support to enable a wide range of Romanian users to use the new hardware deployed in pre-exascale systems.
This project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 951732. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Republic of North Macedonia, Iceland and Montenegro
With funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), the EuroCC project will achieve its goals within two years. Considering its ambitious aims, the EuroCC project is supported by the Coordination and Support Action (CSA) CASTIEL project in order to bridge the existing High-Performance Computing (HPC) skill gaps and to promote cooperation and the implementation of best practices across Europe.
This website aims to provide a competence map of the National Competence Centers (NCCs) and their HPC-related activities along with a place to grow together by sharing expertise and best practices with other stakeholders. In addition, NCCs will have a space to exchange between themselves for any related topics, such as best practices, guides and collaborations.
High-Performance Computing is the ability to process massive data and perform complex calculations at high speed to solve large problems in science, engineering and of business. A supercomputer is one the best-known types of HPC solutions and enables parallel processing: thousands of computer nodes working together to complete one or more tasks for simulation and calculation; in comparison one should combine thousands of typical computers working together to achieve similar results.
A National Competence Center is the reference and single point of contact and coordination on a national level for HPC. Its missions are to analyse, implement and coordinate all necessary activities and offer services to end users to cover their needs: from access to resources, from technological consultancy to the provision of training courses for academia, public administrations and industry.
