EuroCC 2 (and since April 2024 EuroCC4SEE)’s goal is to identify and address the skill gaps in the European High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem and coordinate cooperation across European HPC experts to ensure a consistent skills base.

The role of EuroCC 2 and EuroCC4SEE is to establish and run a network of more than 33 NCCs across the EuroHPC Participating States. The NCCs act as single points of access in each country between stakeholders and national and EuroHPC systems. They operate on a regional and national level to liaise with local communities, in particular Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), map HPC competencies and facilitate access to European HPC resources for users from the private and public sector.

EuroCC 2 delivers training, interacts with industry, develops competence mapping and communication materials and activities, and supports the adoption of HPC services in other related fields, such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence (AI), high performance data analytics (HPDA) to expand the HPC user base.

The latest phase of this initiative will build on the achievements of EuroCC, in particular supporting and further developing the HPC National Competence Centres and building the overall European HPC ecosystem.

The projects will continue to be coordinated by the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), one of three German national supercomputing centres within the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing.

The full list of partners is available here: https://hpc-portal.eu/nccs