4 Amendments of Esther DE LANGE related to 2018/0003(NLE)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The Communication from the Commission of 19 April 2016 entitled ‘European Cloud Initiative – building a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe22 ’, calls for the establishment of a European Data Infrastructure based on leading-class High Performance Computing capabilities and the development of a full European High Performance Computing ecosystem capable of developing new European technology and realise exascale supercomputers. The importance of the area and the challenges faced by the stakeholders in the Union require urgent action in order to gather the necessary resources and capabilities to close the chain from research and development to the delivery and operation of the exascale High Performance Computing systems. Therefore a mechanism should be set up at Union level to combine and concentrate the provision of support to the establishment of a world-leading European High Performance Computing infrastructure and for research and innovation in High Performance Computing by Member States, the Union and the private sector. This infrastructure should provide access to the public sector users, users from industry, including SMEs and users from academia, including the scientific communities being part of the European Open Science Cloud. __________________ 22 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS - European Cloud Initiative - Building a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe, COM(2016) 178 final
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) The Joint Undertaking should address clearly defined topics that would enable academia and European industries at large to design, develop and use the most innovative technologies in High Performance Computing, and to establish an integrated infrastructure across the Union with world-class High Performance Computing capability, high-speed connectivity and leading-edge applications and data and software services for its scientists and for other lead users from industry, including particular SMEs and the public sector. The Joint Undertaking should make efforts to reduce the specific HPC-related skills gap. The Joint Undertaking should prepare the path towards building the first hybrid High Performance Computing infrastructure in Europe, integrating classical computing architectures with quantum computing devices, e.g. exploiting the quantum computer as an accelerator of High Performance Computing threads. Structured and coordinated financial support at European level is necessary to help research teams and European industries remain at the leading edge in a highly competitive international context by producing world- class results and their integration in competitive systems, to ensure the fast and broad industrial exploitation of European technology across the Union generating important spill-overs for society, to share risk-taking and joining of forces by aligning strategies and investments towards a common European interest. The Commission could consider, upon notification by a Member State or group of Member States concerned, that the Joint Undertaking’s initiatives qualify as Important Projects of Common European Interest, provided that all relevant conditions are met in accordance with the Community Framework for state aid for research and development and innovation25. __________________ 25 Communication from the Commission — Criteria for the analysis of the compatibility with the internal market of State aid to promote the execution of important projects of common European interest, OJ C 188, 20.6.2014, p. 4.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) The use of the pre-exascale and petascale supercomputers should be primarily for public research and innovation purposes, for any user from academia, industry, including SMEs or the public sector. The Joint Undertaking should be allowed to carry out some limited economic activities for private purposes. Access should be granted to users established in the Union or an Associated Country to Horizon 2020. The access rights should be equitable to any user and allocated in a transparent manner. The Governing Board should define the access rights to the Union’s share of access time for each supercomputer.
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to provide scientists, industry, including SMEs and the public sector from the Union or an Associated Country to Horizon 2020 with latest High Performance Computing and Data Infrastructure and support the development of its technologies and its applications across a wide range of fields.