[NLPL Task Force (A)] access to norwegian (and finnish) HPC resources

[Stephan Oepen]

hi anders, isabelle and daniel,

i hope i find you safe and healthy, all things considered!

i am writing to clarify access conditions for HPC resources under the
NLPL umbrella.  our original NeIC-funded project completed last year,
such that we need to establish a new framework for collaboration that
will allow KU researchers to gain access to the NLPL virtual
laboratory.  these days, i am seeing several requests for access from
what i believe are your (post-)doctoral fellows (emanuele, maria,
miryam, rahul).

fortunately, both the norwegian and finnish national providers have in
principle agreed that we can continue the 'blanket' collaboration with
the members of the original NLPL consortium (which included KU) under
the auspices of the new EOSC-Nordic project, where oslo and helsinki
participate as representatives of the nordic NLP research community.

personally, i believe it is worth being somewhat organized about this,
as NLP research is slated to become one of the prioritized user
communities on the forthcoming EuroHPC LUMI system, which starting
from mid-2021 is likely to bring gpu deluge to northern europe:

https://datacenter.csc.fi/wp/about-lumi/

in a nutshell, we will need to establish a KU faculty member to act as
the site representative and 'authorize' requests for access from your
community.  this is a relatively low-key tasks, but every now and i
again i need to be able to double-check with you whether a specific
user is in fact (still) affiliated with KU.

i see that daniel now is an assitant professor in your department
(congratulations :-).  seeing as we collaborate around the 2020 CoNLL
shared task already, would it make sense to appoint daniel to the role
of KU site representative in the NLPL umbrella?

best wishes, oe