PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) is a Research Infrastructure that allows researchers to apply for high-performance computers time from a series of hosting nations via a central peer review process. This call is the fifth PRACE-RI Regular call for Project access, inviting applications for high-end (Tier-0) computing resources to carry out projects which have high scientific quality and impact. Allocation will be for 1 year starting from 1st November 2012.

Opening date: 17th April 2012

Closing date: 30th May 2012, 12:00 CEST

Start date: 1st November 2012

Allocation period: 1 year from 1 Nov 2012 to 31 Oct 2013

Type of access: Project access and Multi-year access

PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) is a Research Infrastructure that allows researchers to apply for high-performance computers time from a series of hosting nations via a central peer review process. This call is the fifth PRACE-RI Regular call for Project access, inviting applications for high-end (Tier-0) computing resources to carry out projects which have high scientific quality and impact. Allocation will be for 1 year starting from 1st November 2012.

This Call is also open to applications for Multi-year Projects lasting up to 2 years. Allocation of resources is made one year at a time, with provisional allocations awarded for the second year. All Multi-year Access Projects are subject to annual peer review, based on progress report, and the allocation of resources shall be adjusted accordingly.

The call also invites proposals for project access to Tier-1 resources, via DECI, the Distributed European Computing Initiative, providing single project cross-national access to national (Tier-1) HPC-resources. The deadline for submission of proposals both for Tier-0 and for Tier-1 is 30th May 2012 at 12:00 CEST.

Tier-0 machines available:

IBM Blue Gene/Q “JUQUEEN” (GCS@Jülich, Germany);
Bull Bullx cluster “CURIE” (GENCI@CEA, France);
Cray XE6 “HERMIT” (GCS@HLRS, Germany);
SuperMUC (GCS@LRZ, Germany);
MareNostrum (BSC, Spain);
FERMI (CINECA, Italy).
Tier-1 machines available: IBM Blue Gene/Q and Blue Gene/P, Cray XT and XE, IBM Power 6, range of large clusters including GPU resources made available from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom.

More details on the call for proposals can be found here.

How to apply

Tier-0 call: submit the online form
Tier-1 (DECI) call: email DECI 9 proposal form
Contacts

For queries related to Tier-0 peer review please contact: peer-review(at)prace-ri.eu
For queries related to Tier-1 applications please contact: deci-support(at)prace-ri.eu