18th PRACE Call for Project Access: Now Open

The 18th Call for Proposal for PRACE Project Access is now open until 30 October 2018, 10:00 CET. It is now possible to submit a proposal for PRACE under the defined guidelines, and apply for one of the supercomputers provided by 5 PRACE hosting members: BSC - Spain, CINECA - Italy (MARCONI-Broadwell and MARCONI-KNL), CSCS - Switzerland, GCS - Germany and GENCI - France.
Proposals can be based on a 12-months schedule (Single-year Projects) or on a 24/36-months schedule (Multi-year Projects).

Scientists and researchers can apply for access to PRACE resources. Industrial users can apply if they have their head offices or substantial R&D activity in Europe.

The PRACE 18th Call for Proposals is intended for large-scale projects of excellent scientific merit and for which a significant European added-value and major impact at International level  is anticipated.

Access to PRACE resources is for open R&D research purposes and is free of charge. 

Do you want to submit a proposal on Marconi @ CINECA?

The total available capacity in this call for Marconi is:

• On KNL partition: 610 million compute core hours ( 9 million of KNL node hours)
• On Broadwell partition: 36 million compute core hours ( 1 million of BDW node hours)

Requests below 15 million compute core hours on the Broadwell partition, or below 30 million compute core hours on the KNL partition will not be considered.
If you need of further technical assistance on Marconi @ CINECA, please send an email to: prace-tech at cineca.it

PRACE Project Access Call 18 - Important dates:

• Opening date: 4 September 2018
• Closing date: 30 October 2018 10:00 CET
• Applicants’ reply to scientific reviews: January 2019
• Communication of allocation decision: End of March 2019
• Allocation period for awarded proposals: 02 April 2019 – 01 April 2020

PRACE Project Access Call 19:
Provisional Opening of the call: 5 March 2019

You can find more information on the PRACE website

About PRACE: The mission of PRACE is to enable high impact scientific discovery and engineering research and development across all disciplines to enhance European competitiveness for the benefit of society. PRACE seeks to achieve this mission by offering world class high performance computing (HPC), computing and data management resources and services for scientists and researchers from academia and industry in Europe through a peer review process.