SISSA: A new grant for supercomputing

SISSA, the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste, increasingly betting on High Performance Computing.
SISSA has received European Community funding equivalent to 18 million hours of supercomputing. The grant was awarded thanks to a research project in particle physics. Not money, but “computing hours”. That’s the peculiarity of the awards granted by PRACE, which has granted SISSA an additonal 18 million supercomputing hours to be used on FERMI at CINECA, one of the affiliated European centres, over 1 year. In fact, when doing research it is often necessary to use computers in an intense, highly performing activity: High Performance Computing (HPC). Hours that are clearly very expensive.

About SISSA:
SISSA is a scientific center of excellence within the Italian and international academic scene, founded in 1978.
The three main research areas of SISSA are Physics, Neuroscience and Mathematics.

About PRACE:
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an international non-profit association with its seat in Brussels. The PRACE Research Infrastructure provides a persistent world-class high performance computing service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry in Europe. The computer systems and their operations accessible through PRACE are provided by 4 PRACE members (BSC representing Spain, CINECA representing Italy, GCS representing Germany and GENCI representing France). The Implementation Phase of PRACE receives funding from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme.