Focus Areas - High Performance And Quantum Computing
Establishing long-term EU-India collaboration for High Performance Computing applications to solve jointly identified problems.
High Performance And Quantum Computing
Context
High-Performance Computing (HPC) is a critical enabler of cutting-edge research, innovation, and digital sovereignty. It describes the application of supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced problems, often referred to as domains. For both the EU and India, HPC provides the computational power needed to address societal challenges such as climate change, pandemic response, disaster management, advanced materials discovery, and AI-enabled applications. This cooperation directly supports the EU–India Trade and Technology Council (TTC) agenda and its Working Group 1 and contributes to global digital strategy objectives by ensuring open, interoperable, and sovereign access to next-generation HPC systems.
Objectives
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Strengthening the links between research communities in the priority domains by supporting existing and establishing new collaborative activities.
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Setting up and facilitating the exchange of expertise, capacity building and sharing of computing resources.
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Investigating options for governance and funding models through engagement in a policy dialogue with key stakeholders and develop a framework for long-term partnership.
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Expanding the outreach, broaden the participation of external collaborators and develop a framework for wider community engagement and cooperation.
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Developing select leading software packages and extending their functionality, by improving their data base, optimise HPC performance and scalability, and deploy on software on target architectures.
Our Approach
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We create a dedicated multi-stakeholder platform under the EU–India Digital Policy Dialogue to convene policymakers, industry, academia, and civil society.
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We apply a Team Europe approach to ensure inclusive input and utilizing strategic strengths of EU Member States in HPC alongside Indian stakeholders.
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We ensure alignment with the EU–India Trade and Technology Council (TTC) priorities for digital cooperation.
Current State of Co-operation
Through the India-EU Intent of Cooperation, signed in November 2022, HPC was formally made a key area for bilateral collaboration. In 2024, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information technology (MeitY) published a joint call for proposal, highlighting application domains such as climate change, natural hazards, and bioinformatics, thus translating the intent into concrete funding opportunities. This call laid the groundwork for structuring the GANANA EU–India Scientific HPC Partnership , approved in February 2025.
GANANA runs from 1 February 2025 to 31 March 2028. EU (EuroHPC) provides funding (≈ €4.999 million) to participating EU institutions; Indian partners fund their own participation
Key Areas for Further Collaboration
- Scaling the priority applications in climate, natural hazards, and life sciences across both EuroHPC and Indian supercomputers.
- Expanding shared HPC infrastructure use to include a broader set of pre-exascale systems in India and the EU.
- Deepening mobility and training with joint workshops, summer schools, and researcher exchanges.
- Widening participation to SMEs and new academic partners, strengthening the EU–India HPC community.
Moving Forward
- Deliver and demonstrate practical results in scientific and industrial domains.
- Ensure long-term governance and funding for EU–India HPC cooperation.
- Align with EU–India TTC Working Group 1 priorities, embedding HPC into the broader strategic digital partnership.
- Position GANANA as a flagship for global scientific partnerships, showcasing EU–India leadership in HPC applications.
