PRACE call: big success of the Italian scientific community

The 11th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals yielded 107 eligible proposals of which 18 were awarded for a total of more than 500 million core hours.
The 18 awarded projects are led by Principal Investigators from 7 different European countries (6 from Italy, 4 from England, 3 from France, 2 from Sweden and 1 from Belgium, Portugal and Switzerland).

6 awarded projects with PI from Italy (33% of the projects) received 260 million core hours (50% of the total). 

The awarded projects received 389 million core hours (75% of the total hours) on Fermi @ CINECA (Italy) and 124 on MareNostrum @ BSC (Spain).

Seven overall scientific domains are represented: 3 projects are linked to the fields of Biochemistry, Bioinformatics and Life Sciences; 4 to Chemistry; 2 to Earth System Sciences; 2 to Engineering; 3 to Fundamental Physics; 1 to Mathematics and Computer Sciences and 3 to Universe Sciences.

Selected proposals will receive allocations to PRACE resources from September 2015 to September 2016.

More informations and results of the 11th Call for Proposals for Project Access are available on PRACE web site.

NEXT call:
The 12th Call for Proposals for PRACE Project Access (Tier-0) will open in September 2015.
Selected proposals will receive allocations to PRACE resources from March 2016 to March 2017.