8th PRACE Call for Project Access is now open

PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), the European research infrastructure for High Performance Computing (HPC), makes it possible for researchers from across Europe and the world to apply for access to Tier-0 HPC systems via a peer-review process.

This Call for Proposals targets large-scale, computationally intensive projects that would not be possible or productive without access to PRACE resources.

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.

The systems available for Project Access are:

• “Curie”, Bull Bullx cluster (GENCI @CEA, France)
• “Fermi”, IBM Blue Gene/Q (CINECA, Italy)
• “Hermit”, Cray XE6 (GCS @HLRS, Germany)
• “JUQUEEN”, IBM Blue Gene/Q (GCS @Jülich, Germany)
• “MareNostrum”, IBM System X iDataplex (BSC, Spain)
• “SuperMUC”, IBM System X iDataplex (GCS @LRZ, Germany)

Important dates:

• Opening date: 3 September 2013, 12:00 (noon) CEST (Brussels Time)
• Closing date: 15 October 2013, 12:00 (noon) CEST (Brussels Time)
• Administrative Validation: 18 October 2013
• Applicant responses received: 13 January 2014
• Allocation Decision: 17 February 2014
• Tier-0 Access, for 1 year allocation: 4 March 2014 until 3 March 2015

Please find the Terms of Reference here. 
Please find the Technical Guidelines here.

For development and scaling of HPC codes, PRACE offers Preparatory Access here.

Further details on the standard application procedure can be found on the PRACE website: “How to apply”.