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PRACE Call for Proposals Open until 22nd June

Friday, May 27th, 2011

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.

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CSCS Call for Proposal 2011

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

Since May 2010 Production Project Proposals for CSCS can be submitted at any time. The deadline for the next allocation period (April 1st, 2011) is December 1st, 2010.

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 »

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HPC Advisory Council Announces University Award Program

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

SUNNYVALE, CA. and LUGANO, SWITZERLAND – Aug. 9, 2010 – The HPC Advisory Council, a leading worldwide organization for high-performance computing research, development, outreach and education, today announced a Award program that will be accepting research proposals for advanced research in the subject area of high-performance computing. Twice a year, the HPC Advisory Council will select worthy proposals allowing winners to benefit from a range of the council´s resources and events, including the opportunity to present their final research results to a wider audience.

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:

Exclusive computation time on the HPC Advisory Council´s Compute Center
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)
Publication of the research results on the HPC Advisory Council website and related publications
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.

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HP2C – Call for Focused Projects on Risk Analysis for Global Challenges

Friday, July 16th, 2010

The High Performance and High Productivity Computing Platform (HP2C) invites the submission of proposals focused on applications of high performance computing to risk analysis for global challenges.

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.

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Joint Call for Proposals in the area of SW for HPC

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Workshops in preparation of the joint Call for Proposals in the area of software for High Performance Computing

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

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