PRACE calls for One Year Project Grants on Europe’s fastest Computer

This call marks the first regular call for the PRACE resources with the standard allocation time of one year. The call is aimed at projects to use the HPC system available to researchers through PRACE: the IBM BlueGene/P – JUGENE – hosted by the Gauss-Centre member site in Jülich, Germany. Allocation will be for one year starting from November 1st, 2010.

JUGENE offers computation power of one Petaflop/s and is Europe’s fastest computer (number five on the latest Top 500 list of world’s most powerful computers). The term Petaflop/s means computation capability of 10 to the power of 15 floating point operations per second. In this call, a total of 360 Million compute core hours is available.

The deadline for submission of proposals is August 15th at 16.00 CEST. All proposals must be submitted via the PRACE website at: http://www.prace-project.eu/hpc-access

The First PRACE Regular call is intended for large-scale projects of high scientific quality and for which a significant impact at European and international level is anticipated. High scalability of the code (at least 8000 compute cores) must be demonstrated. Proposals for project access must be ready to run. The projects must demonstrate scientific excellence and should cover topics of major relevance for European research. They should also include elements of novelty, transformative aspects, have a recognised scientific impact and include a dissemination plan. Possible practical and timely applications resulting from the project are also desirable. The projects should also demonstrate the possibility of achieving results which will be publishable in journals of recognised scientific impact.

All proposals will undergo PRACE technical and scientific assessment. The assessment procedure will adhere to the PRACE principles of peer review. For this call only proposals from academia are eligible and the project leader must be homed in a European Union country or a PRACE AISBL country. The JUGENE at GCS at Jülich also has further restrictions due to US export rules. All applicants should expect to be notified of the outcome by the end of October 2010.

A continuous call for applications for preparatory access is expected to open in September 2010.

More information and application form: www.prace-project.eu/hpc-access, see also a related document on www.prace-project.eu/hpc-access/prace_first_regular_call.doc

More information: Prace-peer-review(at)fz-juelich.de

About PRACE: The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an international non-profit association with its seat in Brussels. The PRACE Research Infrastructure (RI) provides a persistent world-class High Performance Computing (HPC) service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry. The PRACE leadership systems form the apex of the performance pyramid and are well integrated into the European HPC ecosystem. The preparation and implementation of the PRACE RI receive EC funding under grants RI-211528 and FP7-261557.