Call for proposals for 13th PRACE Project Access

Dear Users, 

CINECA invites all interested scientists, whose projects fit the criteria of the PRACE calls to submit their projects. The criteria for the PRACE calls as well as complete information on the PRACE machines, how to apply and on the PRACE peer review process can be found at http://www.prace-ri.eu/prace-project-access/

If you need some extra information please feel free to contact PRACE directly via peer-review@prace-ri.eu or CINECA UserSupport at superc@cineca.it.

Regards,

HPC User Support @ CINECA

The 13th Calls for Proposals for Project Access will be will be open from 7 March 2016, 13:30 CET until 1 April 2016, 17:00 CEST.

Important dates:

• Opening date: 7 March 2016, 13:30 CET
• Closing date: 1 April 2016, 17:00 CET
• Administrative check: 4 to 8 April 2016
• Technical check: 11 to 22 April 2016
• Scientific check: 25 April to 24 May 2016
• Applicants’ reply to reviews: 25 May to 1 June 2016
• Allocation decisions: Last 2 weeks of July 2016
• Allocation start date of awarded proposals: 1 September 2016
• Allocation end date of award: 31 August 2017

Types of access:

• Project Access
• Multi-Year Project Access

PRACE HPC systems available:

• “Marconi”: Lenovo System (CINECA, Italy)
• “MareNostrum”: IBM System X iDataplex (BSC, Spain)

The Terms of Reference can be found here or at the bottom of this page.

The Technical Guidelines can be found here or at the bottom of this page.

• Anticipated allocation decisions: first week of March 2016
• Allocation start date of awarded proposals: 14 March 2016
• Allocation end date of award: 13 March 2017

Applications for Project Access must use codes that have been previously tested and that demonstrate high scalability and optimisation to multi-core architectures or that demonstrate a requirement for ensemble simulations that need a very large amount of CPU overall.