Article 18 Union’s access time to EuroHPC supercomputers for commercial purposes

Specific conditions shall apply to all industry users for commercial purposes on the Union’s share of access time. This service for commercial use shall be a pay-per-use service, based on market prices. The level of the fee shall be established by the Governing Board.

The fees generated by the commercial use of the Union’s share of access time shall constitute revenue to the Joint Undertaking budget and shall be used to cover operational costs of the Joint Undertaking.

The access time allocated to commercial services shall not exceed 20 % of the Union’s total access time of each EuroHPC supercomputer. The Governing Board shall decide on the allocation of the Union’s access time for the users of commercial services, taking into account the outcome of the monitoring referred to in Article 17(11).

The quality of commercial services shall be the same for all users.