The call will close on 10th of January, 2012

The call is also open for researchers from Swiss universities and research laboratories. Switzerland is represented in PRACE by ETH Zurich as legal entity and by CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre as project partner..

This call is the fourth PRACE-RI Regular call for Project access, inviting applications for high-end (Tier-0) computing resources to carry out projects which have high scientific quality and impact. Allocation will be for one year starting from 1st of May 2012. The call also invites proposals for project access to Tier-1 resources, via DECI, providing single project cross-national access to national (Tier-1) HPC-resources.

More information about the new call »

PRACE granted 721 million compute hours on Tier-0 systems in previous Tier-0 call

A total of 53 applications requesting 1.687 million compute core hours were received in the PRACE 3rd regular call, for one year resource allocations on the PRACE Research Infrastructure. 24 of these applications were granted 721 million compute hours on Tier-0 systems. The projects were chosen for their high level of scientific and technical maturity, expected impact, and demonstrated need for Tier-0 resources.

The projects are from the following scientific areas: astrophysics, chemistry and material science, medicine and life sciences, engineering and energy, fundamental physics and mathematics.

Allocations for Tier-1

54 proposals were received in the latest DECI call, and 35 of these were awarded 91 million processor core hours in total. The call was oversubscribed by more than a factor of 2.5. Due to the excellent quality of the proposals, the contributing partners increased the resources offered to the call by 11% over
the original commitment; however this still meant that many good projects could not be granted resources.

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is the High Performance Computing (HPC) partner for Swiss technical universities, universities and federal research entities. Its core mission is to provide scientists with the compute infrastructure they need. In this context, CSCS with its international team offers scientists important know-how and competent support in HPC, visualisation, the implementation of codes on the computers as well as with the continuous development and optimisation of codes and algorithms on new computer architectures.

Support in HPC

Thanks to close collaborations with the scientists, the CSCS team is familiar with the key issues of various disciplines in HPC. As the competence centre for supercomputing CSCS often brings together scientists that, independently from each other, are seeking solutions to similar problems. This often leads to research co-operations, such as those in the areas of astrophysics, climate materials research that CSCS actively supports in all matters HPC.

Thanks to its flexibility and innovation CSCS has gained a reputation amongst compute centres and hardware vendors worldwide, which has led to co-operations with other institutions and industry. This enables CSCS to influence hardware developments – based on the requirements of our users – and to develop new tools and methods, allowing CSCS to provide Swiss scientist with a competitive advantage in the worldwide competition.

Submission deadline 14^th October

Researchers in computational sciences can continuously submit short preparatory projects to CSCS. For large projects with a duration of up to three years, scientist can apply for compute time every 6 months. The current call for proposals closes on October 14^th 2011 and will see 250 million cpu hours allocated amongst Swiss institutions starting April 1^st 2012.

Thanks to the installation this summer of the Cray XMT and SGI UV users now have access to supercomputers for their data analysis and data structuring. Registered users can use their user name and password to download the application forms from the CSCS website from the beginning of October. Details about this and full information on who can apply for compute time and what this requires can be found at http://www.cscs.ch/nss/submission

We would like to make you aware of the following opportunity within the PRACE consortium, with over half a billion CPU Hours of allocatable resource. If you wish to apply for a resource allocation under this scheme then please make sure that you can fulfill the necessary conditions including the scalability and readiness criteria.

PRACE Call for Proposals Open until 22nd June

PRACE – the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe – has opened a call for proposals for large-scale projects of high scientific quality.

Project proposal submissions are sought from academics who hold a position of senior researcher or higher and who are based either in Switzerland or in another PRACE Association member country or an EU country.

Tier-0 Resources

The call for Tier-0 resources has over half a billion processor hours to allocate on some of the largest systems in Europe, including an IBM BlueGene/P at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, a Bull Bullx cluster at CEA in France, and a Cray XE6 that will be installed at HLRS in Stuttgart, Germany.

Details of the call are available by downloading the flyer from the following URI:-

http://www.prace-ri.eu/IMG/pdf/PRACE_third_regular_call.pdf

or by visiting the PRACE website at the following URI:-

http://www.prace-ri.eu/

The call for proposals closes at 16:00 CEST on 22nd June 2011.

Note that once you have read the documentation, if you feel that you have a suitable project proposal for Tier-0 resource allocation and wish to apply, then in order to begin the process you should visit the PRACE Peer Review site at the following URI:-

https://prace-peer-review.cines.fr/

Tier-1 Resources

There is also a simultaneous call for access to over 50 million processor hours on PRACE Tier-1 resources at a variety of centers across Europe, with machines including IBM BlueGene/P and Power6 systems, a selection of clusters from multiple vendors including some hybrid systems with GPUs, and a number of Cray XT and XE computers.

Detail of this call are contained in the same flyer as mentioned above available at the following URI:-

http://www.prace-ri.eu/IMG/pdf/PRACE_third_regular_call.pdf

Submissions must be made using the document available at the following URI:-

http://www.prace-project.eu/documents/deci-related-material/prace-deci7-acronym.doc/attachment_download/file

To apply for Tier-1 resources you then need to send a PDF copy of the completed document by email to DECI-support@prace-project.eu<mailto:DECI-support@prace-project.eu>
by 16:00 CEST on 22nd June 2011.

There are only two allocation periods per year, that is on April 1st and October 1st. For the next allocation period starting on April 1st 2011 all projects must be submitted within December 1st, 2010.

Please make sure that you have an active username and password so that you can download the submission form. The form will automatically be filled in with the credentials of the user logging in and downloading the form.

The proposals of a previously successful production project is available as a template.

CSCS application analysts are willing to read a draft proposal if sent no later than 2 weeks before the deadline.  This may help you to improve your proposal, however, acceptance is not guaranteed as the proposal still enters the regular review process.

Details on Proposal Preparation and Submission »

One of the HPC Advisory Council’s main activities is community and education outreach. The University Award program is an outgrowth of this, and is intended to enhance students’ computing knowledge-base as early as possible.

“HPC is critically important to our economy and future, and its role is growing both in research and industry,” said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “The University Award program is part of our ongoing effort to encourage and provide incentives for HPC education and advancement. We look forward to reviewing proposals, and working with the winners to highlight their research and further advances in HPC technology and education.”

“This is an excellent opportunity for students around the world to bring their research to life and highlight the end results to the HPC community,” said Hussein Nasser El-Harake at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS who serves as the Director of the HPC Advisory Council Center of Excellence in Switzerland. “As part of the HPC Advisory Council’s award submission review team, we look forward to reviewing what students have planned for utilizing the performance power of clusters to solve interesting and important problems.”

Winners will be provided with the following:

1. Exclusive computation time on the HPC Advisory Council’s Compute Center
2. Invitation to present the research results at one of the HPC Advisory Council’s worldwide workshops, including sponsorship of travel expenses (according to the Council Award Program rules)
3. Publication of the research results on the HPC Advisory Council website and related publications
4. Publication of the research results and a demonstration, if applicable, within the HPC Advisory Council world-wide technology demonstration activities

Proposals for the 2011 HPC Advisory Council University Award Program can be submitted from August 1, 2010 through October 30, 2010 at the HPC Advisory Council website. The selected proposal(s) will be determined by November 15th and the winner(s) will be notified.

For more information and registration, please visit the HPC Advisory Council website.

These projects should focus on advances in mathematical methods, algorithms and computational techniques to better exploit next generation supercomputing platforms for the analysis and forecast of global challenges, including climate change, regional weather prediction, natural hazards, but also social challenges like major disruptions in financial markets. Given the short duration and the limitation of budget, projects are expected to focus on methodological development and testing to prove the feasibility and impact of the new methods proposed. Projects focused merely on methods and algorithms for current low-end computer platforms will not be supported.

Projects will be developed by one or more groups in a Swiss higher education institution, in close cooperation with the HP2C core group at CSCS and USI, which will provide scientific computing expertise (computational mathematics and computer science). The application developers from the project will also have access to the prototype computing hardware operated and maintained at CSCS.

Applicants are requested to notify their intention to submit an application by August 31, 2010. Complete project proposals must be submitted by September 15, 2010.

Additional information »

In preparation for an upcoming FP7 ICT 2010 EU-Russia Joint Call on Software for HPC (HPC programming models and runtime support, performance analysis tools for HPC, and optimisation, scalability and porting of HPC codes), and to bring in contact EU and Russian researchers to reply jointly to this call, two technical workshops are planned. The first workshop has taken place in Brussels on March the 25th, 2010 and the second workshop will take place on June the 9th, 2010 in Moscow.

To register or receive more information about these two workshops please send an email to Panagiotis.Tsarchopoulos@ec.europa.eu

Call for Participation

The 2010 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2010)

In Conjunction With The International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010)

Caen, Normandy, France

June 28 – July 2, 2010

http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/10/main/callForPapers.jsp

(Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2010)

You are cordially invited to participate in this conference through paper submission, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you.

The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, their use in modeling and simulation, their design, performance and use, and their applications.

There will also be tutorial sessions, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral consortium, and exhibits.    Conference sponsorships are welcomed.

Workshops: (may have different deadlines)

• W1:  Workshop on Dependable Multi-Core Computing (DMCC 2010)
• W2:  1st International Workshop on Cloud Computing Interoperability and Services (InterCloud 2010)
• W3:  Workshop on Optimization Issues in Grid and Parallel Computing Environments (OPTIM 2010)
• W4:  Workshop on High Performance Interconnection Networks (HPIN?10)
• W5:  Workshop on Security and High Performance Computing Systems (SHPCS 2010)
• W6:  Workshop on Parallel Satisfiability Solving: SAT and beyond SAT, Parallel Solving on New Architectures (WPSS 2010)
• W7:  Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Peer-to-Peer Architectures and Systems (MOSPAS 2010)
• W8:  Workshop on High Performance Platform Management (HPPM 2010)
• W9:  Workshop on High-Performance Distributed Computing for Financial Applications (HPDFA 2010)
• W10: Workshop on Pattern Analysis and Recognition (PAR?2010)
• W11: Exploitation of Hardware Accelerators  (WEHA 2010)
• W12: Parallel Evolutionary Computation (PEC 2010)
• W13: Sensor Networks Theory and Applications for Environmental Issues (SeNTApE’2010)
• W14: Workshop on Autonomic and High Performance Computing (AHPC 2010)

Special Sessions: (may have different deadlines)

• SS1:  Special Session on Trusted Ubiquitous Networks & Multimedia Contents Protection (TUN-MM 2010)
• SS2:  Special Session on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (HPPD-DM 2010)
• SS3:  Special Session on Advances in Computational Methods in Electromagnetics (ACME10)
• SS4:  Special Session on Cellular Automata, Algorithms and Architectures (CAAA 2009)

• SS5:  Special Session on Embedded and Reconfigurable Computing (ERC 2010)

In addition to papers, we welcome proposals for  tutorials, demos, doctoral dissertation papers, panels or forums, posters, exhibits, sponsorships, industry track papers, etc.

Important Dates

• Paper and Poster Submission Deadline, February 15, 2010
• Symposium, Workshop/Special Session Proposal Deadline, November 30, 2009
• Tutorial/Demo/Panel Proposal Deadline, February 15, 2010
• Notification of Acceptance, March 15, 2010
• Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due, April 15, 2010

For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/10/main/callForPapers.jsp,  or contact one of the organizers.

CSE is an emerging, rapidly developing, and potentially very significant force in changing scientific practice by offering a ‘third way’ of carrying out research in addition to, or indeed, instead of, theory and experiment.

This handbook will provide a basic reference text for the fundamental elements making up CSE and showing their interdependence in a way that (a) reviews state of the art and  current achievements; (b) explores imminent developments that will advance the state of play; and (c) presents these in a form accessible to as wide an audience of interested parties as possible.

Details are provided on the book site http://www.cse-book.com/index.html and on the following PDF document: CSE-handbook-call-extended.

Mario Valle (CSCS) on behalf of the Editorial Board