21st PRACE Call for Project Access: Now Open

The 21st Call for Proposal for PRACE Project Access is now open until 28 April 2020, Brussells Time. 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 (GPU Cluster), ETH/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.

Industry Access: Call 21 offers Principal Investigators from industry the possibility to apply for Single-year access to a special Industry Track which prioritises 10% of the total resources available.

The PRACE 21st 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.

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/GPU overall

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

Do you want to submit a proposal on GPU Cluster @ CINECA?

If you need of technical assistance, please send an email to: prace-tech at cineca.it

PRACE Project Access Call 21 - Important dates:

• Opening date: 3 March 2020
• Closing date: 28 April 2020 (10:00 Brussels Time)
• Applicants’ reply to scientific reviews: Mid-July 2020
• Communication of allocation decision: End of September 2020
• Allocation period for awarded proposals: 01/10/2020 – 30/09/2021

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.