The EuroHPC Federation Platform will be delivered with Czech contribution provided by IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center

EuroHPC JU supercomputers and quantum computers are located in European supercomputing centres, including the Karolina supercomputer at the Czech supercomputing centre in Ostrava, which will also house the first Czech quantum computer. Each EuroHPC JU supercomputer has a different architecture, and each organisation has its own approach to users and access management. In particular, the platform will unify the view of different supercomputers and their software portfolio and enhance the user experience.

The users of the EuroHPC JU environment will be able to log in to different computers with their own home organisation identity, the workflows between computers will be seamless, and the users will see what they are doing in the EuroHPC environment under a single sign-on. In a scalable and secure manner, the platform will enable allocating and managing federated resources, including high-performance computing, quantum computing, and connected data management resources. This secure and federated platform will cater to European public and private users, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center is a part of the team responsible for delivering this unique platform. "Our team will contribute to the EuroHPC Federation Platform, leveraging our expertise in developing solutions that facilitate access to HPC systems and distributed data management. The contributions include our HPC-as-a-Service solution named HEAppE Middleware, and the components of the LEXIS Platform 2 providing features like distributed data management and execution of complex computational workflows across HPC and cloud systems," said Jan Martinovič, Head of the Advanced Data Analysis and Simulations Lab at IT4Innovations.

The total budget for the platform delivery is EUR 20 million. The consortium includes CSC-IT, Géant, NORDUnet, University of Tartu, Ghent University, and IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB—Technical University of Ostrava. The platform delivery began in January 2025 and will last five years.

"I am very proud that IT4Innovations will be an important part of the designed solution to federate all major computing and data resources in Europe. I never imagined that the technologies we started developing before the establishment of our supercomputing centre 13 years ago would be part of such an important milestone in building a pan-European computing and data infrastructure supported by the EuroHPC JU," adds Vít Vondrák, Managing Director of IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center.