Brussels, 14 February 2025
The GANANA project aims to establish a long-term collaboration between Europe and India in the field of HPC applications in identified priority domains.
GANANA will strengthen expertise exchange, foster research links and enhance the development of software for HPC applications. Three European HPC Centers of Excellence funded by the EuroHPC JU, focusing on the domains of biomedical and life sciences, natural hazards and weather modelling, namely BioExcel, ChEESE, ESiWACE3, will collaborate with five Indian institutions including the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India Meteorological Department, Institute for Seismological Research, NII, AIRAWAT.
In addition, the project aims to leverage the combined computational power of Europe’s and India’s leading supercomputers to address global challenges and foster innovation. This initiative will include EuroHPC pre-exascale systems LUMI in Finland, LEONARDO in Italy and MareNostrum 5 in Spain.
Coordinated by Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) and involving beneficiaries from seven European countries and India, GANANA will run from February 2025 to January 2028. The project partners include Universiteit Utrecht (UU) (Netherlands), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main (GUF) (Germany), Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) (Spain), Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Spain), Universidad de Málaga (UMA) (Spain), CINECA Consorzio Interuniversitario (Italy), Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) (Italy), Bull SAS (Eviden) (France), CSC – Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus Oy (Finland).
The project is receiving funding from EuroHPC JU with a total budget of € €4,999,522.50 stemming from Horizon Europe funding programme. GANANA was selected following the call HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-INCO-06. The Indian partners will finance their participation independently.
The launch of GANANA will mark EuroHPC JU’s second international cooperation initiative, following HANAMI’s launch in 2024 to foster HPC collaboration between Europe and Japan.
Background
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a legal and funding entity created in 2018 to enable the European Union and EuroHPC participating countries to coordinate their efforts and pool their resources with the objective of making Europe a world leader in supercomputing.
In order to equip Europe with a world-leading supercomputing infrastructure, the EuroHPC JU has already procured nine supercomputers, located across Europe. Through the EuroHPC Access Calls, European scientists and users from the public sector and industry can benefit from these EuroHPC supercomputers, which rank among the world’s most powerful.
The EuroHPC JU is also deploying a European Quantum Computing infrastructure, integrating diverse European quantum computing technologies with supercomputers. As part of this effort, the JU has recently procured five quantum computers, currently being deployed in Poland, Czechia, France, Germany, and Spain, with additional systems coming soon to Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
In parallel, the EuroHPC JU is investing in research and innovation projects to develop a full European supercomputing supply chain: from processors and software to applications to be run on these supercomputers and know-how to develop strong European HPC expertise.
Recently reviewed by means of Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1732, the EuroHPC JU received a new mandate to develop and operate AI factories. These comprehensive open AI ecosystems located around EuroHPC supercomputing facilities will support the growth of a highly competitive and innovative AI ecosystem in Europe. In December 2024, the EuroHPC JU selected the sites that will host the first European AI Factories, set to be deployed in 2025 across Europe: in Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain and Sweden.
Source – EuroHPC