PRACE awards 35 projects on the DECI call. Four of them are from Italy

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, announced that 35 projects, selected from 54 proposals, will share 91 million processor core hours awarded by the most recent DECI (Distributed European Computing Initiative) call. The consortia of European computational scientists whose projects were selected for funding will be given access to one of the 19 European national HPC services through a national HPC resource exchange initiative, operated by members of the PRACE association.

Four of the winning projects are under the responsability of Italian Researchers

• Dr. Claudio Zanni,  INAF, Italy
  MAESTRO (Magnetized Accretion and Ejection phenomena in astrophysics)
• Sandro Sorella, SISSA, Italy
  PETAHUB (The Phase diagram of the Hubbard model by quantum Monte Carlo and Petaflop supercomputers)
• Marco Masia, Universita' di Sassari, Italy
  SCW (Properties of SuperCritical Water by simulation)
• Alfredo Soldati, University of Udine, Italy
  MIXTUDI

The complete PRACE Press Release is available at http://prace-ri.eu/New-article,208

Regards,

Elda Rossi