Letter of cooperation for the ASE-CARE collaboration (HORIZON-INFRA-2026-TECH-01-01)

[Eduardo Rodrigues]

Dear HSF Forum, 

We received a request for a letter of support from the ASE-CARE collaboration (coordinator Eduard Fernandez, in cc), who wish to submit their proposal to the HORIZON-INFRA-2026-TECH-01-01 call with deadline of 16/02 (quite close, as it’s tomorrow). 

More information on the proposal and the participants is below. 

The main connection to the HSF goals is on training: part of their focus is on software efficiency on heterogeneous hardware, and they would be happy to provide material to the HSF training group/catalogue. From CERN, they are working with Sebastian Ponce (who delivered the 8th iteration of the HSF C++ essentials course) and with Marco Clemencic.  

The draft letter is here: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AmewM8oTa4viWg1PNdREMRsNpr1Y2faGZ9Amdi2K1p4/edit?usp=sharing

Could you please reply with your thoughts by tomorrow lunchtime (12:00) - apologies for the vers short notice but we our doing our best to make this happen - at which point no objections will be considered as "good to be sent"? 

Thank you,

Caterina (+Eduardo) for the HSF SG

CALL:

HORIZON-INFRA-2026-01: Research Infrastructures 2026

TOPIC:

HORIZON-INFRA-2026-TECH-01-01: R&D for the next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools, methods, digitalisation and solutions for research infrastructure upgrades.

PROPOSAL NAME:

ASE-CARE: Architecture-aware Software Engineering for Efficiency in Compute-intensive Research Infrastructures

CONSORTIUM MEMBERS:

La Salle - Ramon Llull University (Coordinators), CERN, INFN, CNRS, CEA, Nikhef, NCBJ, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Université Clermont Auvergne, Universität Mannheim, University of Limerick, Warsaw University of Technology, Net7 SRL, ZeroPoint Technologies AB

SUMMARY:

Software has become an essential tool for modern research, enabling large-scale data collection, analysis and visualization across all kinds of knowledge areas. In this context, research infrastructures exhibit a growing need for both higher compute power and more specifically fine-tuned software to support increasingly complex experiments. Thus, scientific productivity can be bottlenecked by both inefficient research software and the machines running it.

Challenges inherent to modern research software are exacerbated in compute-intensive research infrastructures, such as those found in the fields of High-Performance Computing (e.g. supercomputers and computing clusters) and High Energy Physics (e.g. accelerators such as synchrotrons). In these areas, large volumes of data and higher algorithmic complexity contribute to slowing down research progress as well as to raising the entry barrier for new researchers. Therefore, research in these fields can be empowered through an improved understanding of sustainable software development practices, as well as the interaction between a system’s architecture and the efficiency of the software it runs.

We aim to provide a new generation of methods and tools to evaluate and optimize the computational and energy efficiencies of the software used in scientific infrastructures, with validation at CERN and replication capabilities in other European RIs. More specifically, we aim to extend the usage of state-of-the-art and novel software development tools, frameworks, and methodologies from leading Research Infrastructures to smaller experiments, providing them with both the technological expertise and the corresponding training resources to accelerate worflows and increase their scientific productivity.

In short, the ASE-CARE project aims to build on three areas: Developing a better understanding of software sustainability and its relationship to resource usage in heterogeneous architectures present in HEP experiments; Consolidating the scientific and technological community in the field of Architecture-aware Software Engineering, particularly in compute-intensive Research Infrastructures; Contributing towards the training of RI workforces in software development best practices, including staff, PhD students, and researchers, with a particular focus on attracting young talent.

| Eduardo Rodrigues, PhD (he/him) | University of Liverpool | LHCb Experiment @ CERN | Tel. +41 (0) 22 76 72088 |

[Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy]

Hi Eduardo,

Your letter looks good to me, and I also support this proposal.

Cheers, Liz

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