Article 13 Allocation of Union's access time to the supercomputers
United Kingdom
The share of the Union's access time to each pre-exascale supercomputer shall be directly proportional to the financial contribution of the Union referred to in Article 4(1) to the total cost of ownership of the supercomputer and shall not exceed 50 % of the total access time of the supercomputer.
Each Participating State where a hosting entity is established or each Participating State in a hosting consortium shall be allocated a share of the remaining access time to each pre-exascale supercomputer. In the case of a hosting consortium, the Participating States shall agree among themselves the distribution of access time to the pre-exascale supercomputer.
The share of the Union's access time to each petascale supercomputer shall be directly proportional to the financial contribution of the Union referred to in Article 4(1) to the acquisition costs of the supercomputer.
Each Participating State where a hosting entity is established or each Participating State in a hosting consortium shall be allocated a share of the remaining access time to each petascale supercomputer. In the case of a hosting consortium, the Participating States shall agree among themselves the distribution of access time to the petascale supercomputer.
The Governing Board shall define the access rights to the Union's share of access time to the pre-exascale supercomputers and petascale supercomputers and to the Union's share of access time to the national supercomputers.
As a guiding principle, allocation of access time for publicly funded research and innovation activities for any user of a Member State or country associated to Horizon 2020 shall be based on a fair and transparent peer review process following continuously open calls for expression of interest launched by the Joint Undertaking, which shall target users from science, industry, including SMEs, and the public sector. Expressions of interest shall be evaluated by independent experts. As a general rule, Horizon 2020 principles shall guide the criteria to evaluate the user projects submitted in the calls for expression of interest.
The Governing Board may grant Union's access time without a call for expression of interest in exceptional cases or in emergency and crisis management situations.
Use of the Union's share of access time shall be free of charge for applications related to publicly funded research and innovation activities.
The Governing Board shall regularly monitor the Union's access time granted per Member State and country associated to Horizon 2020 and per user category, including for commercial purposes. It may decide to:
re-adapt access times per category of activity or user, with the aim to optimise the use capabilities of the petascale and pre-exascale supercomputers;
propose additional support measures for providing fair access opportunities to users from all Member States and countries associated to Horizon 2020 that would aim to raise their level of skills and expertise in High Performance Computing systems.