PRACE 11th Call for proposals is now open - closing 18 March
(includes a pilot call for joint data storage services and resources)
Important dates
| Opening date | 9 February 2015 |
| Closing date | 18 March 2015, 12:00 (noon) CEST |
| Response of applicants to reviews | 27 May 2015 – 3 June 2015 |
| Anticipated allocation decisions | last week of July 2015 |
| Allocation start date of awarded proposals | 1 September 2015 |
| Allocation end date of award | 31 August 2016 |
| Type of access |
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PRACE HPC systems available
- “Fermi” – IBM Blue Gene/Q (CINECA, Italy)
- “MareNostrum” – IBM System X iDataplex (BSC, Spain)
The mission of PRACE is to enable high impact scientific discovery and engineering research and development across all disciplines to enhance European competitiveness for the benefit of society. PRACE seeks to realize this mission by offering world class computing and data management resources and services through a peer review process.
Scientists and researchers from around the world can apply for access to PRACE resources.
Industrial users can apply if they have their head offices or substantial R&D activity in Europe.
Project Access
Proposals can be based on a 12-months schedule, or, for Multi-year Projects, on a 24- or 36-months schedule. The allocation of awarded resources is made for 1 year at a time with provisional allocations awarded for the 2nd and 3rd year.
Additionally, the call
- Offers the opportunity to launch a pilot call for joint data storage services and resources. This call is a pilot and its future continuation shall be subject to evaluation. This pilot case will be proposed jointly with PRACE associated members and partners willing to provide storage and associated data services under the PRACE umbrella including EUDAT, EU-T0, BSC, CaSToRC, EPCC/EPSRC, and SURFsara.
- Reserves 0.5% of the total resources available for the 11th Call for Centres of Excellence (CoE) as selected by the EC under the E-INFRA-5-2015 call for proposals. CoE don’t need to apply to this PRACE call – if funded by the EC, CoE requesting access to PRACE resources will be awarded PRACE resources from this reserve.
The PRACE Access Committee, composed of leading European scientists and engineers, ranks the project proposals that will be awarded access to PRACE resources.
With PRACE 1.0 evolving into PRACE 2.0, a balanced contribution of the PRACE Hosting Members was sought. This transition phase has led to a reduced offer of resources.
For more information and application forms see
www.prace-ri.eu/prace-project-access/
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If you need extra information please either contact PRACE directly via peer-review@prace-ri.eu or contact the PRACE SNIC coordinator, Dr. Lilit Axner, at PDC.