Instructions for PRACE applications

Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) offers computing and data management resources and services to researchers throughout Europe, including Sweden. For instructions on how to apply for PRACE resources, see http://www.prace-ri.eu/.

Researchers interested in applying for PRACE resources are encouraged to subscribe to receive PRACE Call Alerts:

http://www.prace-ri.eu/Call-Announcements

Calls for Proposals for PRACE Project Access are issued twice yearly (May and November). 

4th call for proposals for Tier-0 and Tier-1 (DECI8)

Opening date: 2nd November 2011
Closing date: 10th January 2012, 1600 CET
Start date: 1st May 2012
Allocation period: 1 year

PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) is a Research Infrastructure that allows researchers from across Europe to apply for time on high-performance computers from a series of hosting nations via a central peer review process. This call is the fourth PRACE-RI Regular call for Project access, inviting applications for high-end (Tier-0) computing resources as well as 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 DECI call is synchronized in preparation for
future integrated calls for Tier-0 and Tier-1 resources.

The deadline for submission of proposals both for Tier-0 and for Tier-1 is 10th January 2012 at 1600 CET.

For more information on preparation procedures please refer to: http://www.prace-ri.eu/IMG/pdf/PRACE_fourth_regular_call_2november2011-final-1.pdf

SNIC centers are ready to assist you with application preparation. Below you can find the direct contact points for your nearest center:

PDC - Lilit Axner lilit(at)kth.se, Michael Schliephake michs(at)pdc.kth.se
NSC - Chandan Basu cbasu(at)nsc.liu.se, Soon-Heum "Jeff" Ko sko(at)nsc.liu.se
HPC2N - Mikael Rännar mr(at)cs.umu.se, Jerry Eriksson jerry(at)cs.umu.se
UPPMAX - Biplab Sanyal biplab.sanyal(at)fysik.uu.se, Elias Rudberg elias.rudberg(at)it.uu.se
LUNARC - Joachim Hein joachim.hein(at)math.lu.se
C3SE - Pär Strand par.strand(at)chalmers.se