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 and technological consultancy to the provision of training courses for academia, public administrations and industry.
The aim is to bring together the necessary expertise to set up a cross-European network of NCCs in HPC-related topics with 31 participating members and associated states and to provide a broad service portfolio tailored to the respective national needs of academia, public administrations and industry. Each NCC has a presentation page with their skills and contact information.
EuroCC@Greece is one of the 33 HPC Competence Centres, built in the framework of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).
EuroCC@Greece HPC Services were defined based on four key elements:
- The Greek HPC needs analysis
- The types of HPC users
- The expertise of EuroCC@Greece consortium
- The tools that EuroCC offers as a project
The table below, presents the service types designed and planned to be offered by EuroCC@Greece. For more detailed information, please consult our service portfolio by visiting our Service Hub.
| HPC services | Description |
| Introductory/Beginner Consultation | Initial ~1hour consultation by HPC Expert / NCC Consultant for novice industrial users. Provides introduction into HPC benefits, infrastructure options, advice on HPC adoption, guidance to our training services |
| Consulting and Support for Access to European or National HPC Infrastructure | Advisory and support for obtaining access to National and EuroHPC-JU HPC infrastructures. Consultation and assistance with access proposal writing for any of the JU supercomputers. |
| Consulting and Support for Funding Application and Proposal Writing | Advisory and support for finding suitable funding opportunities. Consultation and assistance with funding proposal writing, especially for the FFplus program. |
| Hands-on HPC training modules | Participation to regular courses, workshops, and hands-on webinars on HPC topics, in the framework of the EuroCC@Greece training series |
| Hands-on HPC custom training module | Hands-on HPC training module customized to your needs. Limited availability. |
| Access to the AI assisted MOOC/ personalized self assessment/ learning pathways | Personalized access to the AI-assisted Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) offering self-assessment tools on the National Digital Skills Academy. |
| Access to EUROCC@Greece training platform/ learning pathways | Non-personalized access to the constantly enriched EUROCC@Greece training platform, which offers structured learning materials, training resources, and guided learning pathways in High-Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI), data analytics, and related technologies. |
| Maturity Assessment | Assisted and autonomous use of the HPC4SME Assessment Tool. Support and maturity assessment consultation with NCC Consultant. |
| HPC Application scaling and code optimization (level 3 support) | Advanced consultation by HPC Expert / HPC Researcher, targeted to the needs of all HPC users. Provides level 3 support services such as: Code Enabling & Scaling – Porting and scaling across EuroHPC systems/ Performance Analysis – Identifying and fixing bottlenecks/ Benchmarking – Comparing EuroHPC system performance/ Code Refactoring – Improving maintainability and structure/ Code Optimization – Speeding up execution and reducing resource use/ Support on finding suitable codes and tools. |
| HPC Code Repository | Access to a constantly maintained and enriched repository with useful codes for HPC and HPC-related applications. Support and consultation on their usage and suitability if needed, through services GR-1 and GR-9. |
The overall objective of the Greek National Competence Center is to enable the efficient uptake of HPC technologies
with the 3-fold goal to:
i) advance competitiveness in research
ii) improve effectiveness of government services and
iii) promote innovation in industry.
In order to achieve this goal, the NCC will address the issues of training and skills development, technology transfer, collaboration with Industry, competence mapping and awareness raising, in the fields of High Performance Computing, High Performance Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.
Consortium
The Greek National Competence Center “EuroCC@Greece”, is run by a consortium of 5 institutions, namely
- GRNET – National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (coordinator),
- National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”,
- Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH),
- Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of NTUA
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The project has received funding from the European High-Performance computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 951732 and the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology.
