PRACE opened the PRACE 4th regular call for Tier-0 resources and DECI-8 (Distributed European Computing Initiative) call for Tier-1 resources on 2nd of November, 2011. 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 [...]
PRACE Call for Proposals Open until 22nd June
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 [...]
Conference Report: PRACE Executive Seminar on Industrial Usage of HPC Services
Switzerland was represented at the «Executive Seminar on Industrial Usage of World-Class HPC Services» (March 28-29, 2011, Stockholm, Sweden) by CSCS and Christian Tognacca, partner of the company «beffa tognacca Ltd.». The seminar was designed for CIOs, CTOs and R&D managers, responsible for designing, deploying and operating computing and data management infrastructures, or depending thereupon [...]
DEISA PRACE Symposium 2011
The DEISA PRACE Symposium 2011 will be arranged on April 13-14 in Helsinki, Finland, at the National Museum of Finland. Programme The symposium is featuring keynote speakers from the US, Asia and Europe as well as scientific speakers from all over Europe, covering major computational science areas in HPC. The DEISA PRACE Symposium is arranged [...]
PRACE Summer School in Helsinki
CSC – the Finnish IT Center for Science and SNIC/PDC-Center for High Performance Computing at KTH in Sweden are co-organising a Summer School to be held in Helsinki from 29th August until the 1st September. The speaker list includes William Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), one of the key authors of MPI (Message Passing Interface) [...]



