John Renner Hansen has stepped down as Chair of the DeiC Board. As a result, the DeiC Board is currently unable to make financial decisions, which impacts several ongoing and upcoming quantum and HPC activities.
A new Chair is expected to be appointed by the Rectors’ Conference of Danish Universities in early August 2025.
Delays in Quantum Funding and Access Calls
Due to the situation, the ongoing process of final board approval for the allocation of postdoctoral fellowships under the Quantum Academy and funding from the Q-Competence programme is currently on hold. Likewise, the upcoming call for access to quantum computers will be postponed until the Board regains its decision-making capacity.
Fewer Resources in Upcoming HPC Call
The next national HPC call will open on 15 July 2025 and covers the compute period from 1 January to 31 December 2026. DeiC’s current contracts with DeiC Interactive HPC will expire on 31 December 2025, and the agreement with DeiC Throughput HPC will end on 31 March 2026.
Work is underway to establish new agreements – including the outcome of the call for a new General Purpose HPC system. However, as the Board is not currently quorate, there is no guarantee that new agreements will be in place before the call opens. Therefore, the upcoming call will only include national compute time on LUMI.
Impact on Universities’ Own Compute Time Pools
The situation also affects the universities' ability to allocate resources from their own compute time pools on DeiC Interactive HPC after 1 January 2026 and on DeiC Throughput HPC after 1 April 2026. Proposed solutions will be presented to the DeiC Board as soon as possible.
Alternative Options
DeiC – in collaboration with the EuroCC project and local Front Offices – is ready to assist researchers in applying for access to EuroHPC JU systems, if their needs cannot be met via LUMI.
For more information, please contact your local Front Office or the DeiC Helpdesk.
