Interactive Computing E-Infrastructure for the Human Brain Project (ICEI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Austria,Austria,Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Israel,Austria,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Switzerland,Switzerland,Switzerland,Switzerland,Switzerland,Norway,Norway,Türkiye,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Finland,Finland,Greece,Greece,Hungary,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Greece,Hungary,Slovenia,Belgium,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Interactive Computing e-infrastructure for the Human Brain Project FET Flagship (FPA) (H2020-SGA-INFRA-FETFLAG-HBP, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50075048.75
EU funding (EUR): 24999873.9
Participants: 166
Project status: SIGNED

Five leading European supercomputing centres are committed to develop, within their respective national programs and service portfolios, a set of services that will be federated across a consortium. The work will be undertaken by the following supercomputing centres, which form the High Performance Analytics and Computing (HPAC) Platform of the Human Brain Project (HBP): ▪ Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) in Spain, ▪ The Italian supercomputing centre CINECA, ▪ The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS, ▪ The Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany, and ▪ Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), France (joining in April 2018). The new consortium will be called Fenix and it aims at providing scalable compute and data services in a federated manner. The neuroscience community is of particular interest in this context and the HBP represents a prioritised driver for the Fenix infrastructure design and implementation. The Interactive Computing E-Infrastructure for the HBP (ICEI) project will realise key elements of this Fenix infrastructure that are targeted to meet the needs of the neuroscience community. The participating sites plan for cloud-like services that are compatible with the work cultures of scientific computing and data science. Specifically, this entails developing interactive supercomputing capabilities on the available extreme computing and data systems. Key features of the ICEI infrastructure are: ▪ Scalable compute resources; ▪ A federated data infrastructure; and ▪ Interactive Compute Services providing access to the federated data infrastructure as well as elastic access to the scalable compute resources. The ICEI e-infrastructure will be realised through a coordinated procurement of equipment and R&D services. Furthermore, significant additional parts of the infrastructure and R&D services will be realised within the ICEI project through in-kind contributions from the participating supercomputing centres.

Keywords: neuroscience,e infrastructures,high performance computing,federated data infrastructures,interactive supercomputing,brain modeling,data analytics