EuroHPC Federation Platform brings seamless access to LUMI and other EuroHPC systems

The EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP) initiative aims to integrate Europe’s supercomputing, quantum systems, and interconnected data infrastructure into a unified and secure environment.

The EFP initiative, launched in early 2025 and commissioned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, strives to streamline the user experience across the various EuroHPC systems, which feature diverse architectures and unique user management approaches by each hosting organization.

This platform provides unified user experience for a wide range of European users, including public sector organizations, academia, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The users of the EuroHPC JU environment can log in to different systems, such as LUMI, with their own home organization identity, allowing them seamless access between computers and seeing what they are doing in the EuroHPC environment under a single sign-on. For the LUMI ecosystem, the EFP will provide avenues to develop optimal technologies for the LUMI environment and will bring an added advantage of closer collaboration with other EuroHPC hosting sites.

The EFP will enable the allocation and management of federated resources, including high-performance computing, quantum computing, and connected data management resources, in a scalable and secure manner, providing Union-wide services for a wide range of public and industrial users across Europe. The envisioned solution prioritizes security and user centricity across all federated systems while improving services to the communities served. At the same time, it offers a unique opportunity to develop a gateway connecting LUMI and the overall EuroHPC ecosystem to other frameworks, such as the EOSC and the EU common data spaces.

The federated platform provided by CSC and partners will be built on a flexible modular architecture based on open-source technologies mainly developed in various EU-funded projects, avoiding vendor lock-in. The total budget for platform delivery is EUR 20 million. The consortium led by CSC – IT Center for Science includes Géant, NORDUnet, University of Tartu, Ghent University, and VSB Technical University of Ostrava IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center. The project started at the beginning of 2025 and will last five years.