Awareness Creation and Community Support

The work package on awareness creation and community support is one of the cornerstones to guarantee the project success, given that one of the main goals of HiDALGO is to establish a self-sustaining interface between stakeholders and the products intended to face global challenges. Therefore, it is essential that the results achieved in the project are widely disseminated and constitute the basis of further research across scientific and business-oriented communities.

Requirements Evolution and Component Integration

The objectives of this work package are tripartite: first, the requirements for HiDALGO are captured and evaluated in order to form a common ground for developments and a shared baseline between the work packages. Second, this work package is taking care of the implementation of one of the cornerstones of the project, namely the Artificial Intelligence supported workflow.

Centre Implementation and Operation

This work package is responsible for the deployment, operation and maintenance of the HiDALGO Portal and the underlying infrastructure as well as the support infrastructure for customers (in the initial phase Pilot users) of the centre. This WP has a strong relationship with WP3, WP4 and WP6, which interconnect their functionality on different domains. Summarising, the aims and goals for WP5 are:

Pilot Applications

This work package addresses the definition and implementation of the three pilot case studies, which make use of the developments of the technical, but also the business-oriented work packages. The case studies have been selected with the focus on real-world problem statements and their applicability. Consequently, they follow an individual exploitation path but, at the same time, validate the HiDALGO technology and services.

Exascale HPC and HPDA System Support

The overall goal of this work package is to provide knowledge, algorithms, methods and tools for highly efficient data processing and analysis. The scope of the work is to achieve highest possible performance (Exascale computation) as well as efficient and agile data management.  

Business Models and Sustainability

The goal of this work package is to create a valuable, viable and sustainable Centre of Excellence that follows a clear strategy towards a return of investment. In order to implement this strategy, the risk-profiles, the magnitude of investments and the values of the developments need to meet the partners’ requirements. Therefore, the objective of this WP is to articulate, quantify, compare and promote this investment to all stakeholders, inside and outside the consortium.

Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) is affiliated to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. PSNC serves as an academic HPC centre and a broadband network services provider as well as application and services developer and provider. PSNC employs about 300 people in four divisions: HPC and data infrastructure, networking, applications and networking services.

Hungarian Public Road (MK) is a national road operator company which is 100% owned by the Hungarian State. MK is responsible for the operation and maintenance of more than 31 000 km national public roads. With regards to its 5500 employees and its economic indicators the company stays within the first ten state owned enterprises in Hungary. The activities of the Hungarian Public Road consist of operation, as well as the routine ant preventive maintenance of the national public road network including expressways and motorways.

The Know-Center is Austria's competence centre for data-driven business and big data analytics, founded in 2001. As a connecting link between science and industry, the Know-Center conducts application-oriented research in cooperation with other academic institutions and with companies. Today, the Center has over 100 researchers, 37 industry partners, over 700k Euros annual industry assignments, a dedicated business development cooperating with major players and offers data-driven services to hundreds of users and has spun off three companies.