Bridging the gap between HPC & AI/ML user communities and HPC centres is key to un-leash Europe’s innovation potential. A lot of effort is done to build the European technologies able to deliver centralised, petascale/exascale HPC & ML. Fostered by in-creasing access from the edge of the network, it is equally important to make such resources easily and responsibly consumable. 

The HEROES project aims at developing an innovative software solution addressing both the industrial and scientific user communities. The platform will allow end users to submit their complex simulation and ML workflows to both HPC data centres and Cloud infra-structures and provide them with the possibility to choose the best option to achieve their goals in time, within budget and with the best energy efficiency. 

Although the project will be able, in the future, to provide value creation across multiple industrial sectors, the initial focus for the demonstrator will address workflows of strategic importance in the field of “Renewable Energy” and in “Manufacturing” applications where HPC is involved for the design of more energy efficient products (for example in the design of energy efficient vehicles). 

HEROES major innovations reside in its plat-form selection decision module and its application of marketplace concepts to HPC. The consortium involves 4 European SMEs which bring HPC to their clients and are facing everyday this market demand. A major Super-computing Research Centre complements the project with its specific expertise in energy management and resource optimisation. HEROES is supported by Meteosim, UL Renewables, EDF and Dallara which will advise on workflows relevant to such use cases. At the end of the project, its outcomes will be commercialised and further reinforce Eu-rope’s capacity to lead and nurture innovation in HPC.