Both signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the cloud computing infrastructure, with the aim to accelerate strategic high-performance computing (HPC) research and development in Europe.
The University of Luxembourg and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced their collaboration on the launch of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Both signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
“With Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton2 and Graviton3, the University of Luxembourg will make simulation capacity available to university researchers. The cloud computing infrastructure will accelerate strategic high-performance computing (HPC) research and development in Europe,” their joint press release explains.
“The University of Luxembourg will be among the first European universities to provide research and development communities with access to computing environments that use an architecture similar to the European Processor Initiative (EPI), which will be the basis for Europe’s future exascale computing architecture.
“As part of this project, AWS will provide cloud computing services to the University that will support the development, design, and testing of numerical codes (i.e., codes that use only digits, such as binary), which traditionally demands a lot of computing power,” the press release continues.
“This will give researchers an accessible, easy-to-use, end-to-end environment in which they can validate their simulation codes on ARM64 architectures, including servers, personal computers, and Internet of Things (IoT).”.
Research projects will be selected this autumn, from proposals submitted by University R&D teams.
After an initial project selection by a steering committee including representatives from the University of Luxembourg and AWS, additional projects will be selected each quarter. Selections will be based on the university’s outlined research goals.
Priority will be given to research carried out by the University of Luxembourg and its interdisciplinary research centres; however, based on available capacity and project qualifications, the initiative could extend to European industrial partners.
“Through this collaboration with AWS, we contribute to the preparation of the future European cloud computing infrastructure and enabling researchers in making impactful change starting now with high performance computing capacities,” explains Prof. Pascal Bouvry, in charge of the University High Performance Computing.
