May 26 — On February 1, 2015 the PRACE-4IP project began and a kick-off meeting for project participants took place on the VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava campus in Ostrava on April 28-29, 2015. PRACE aisbl and its Members collaborated on the PRACE-4IP project, which is a 27 month project funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The project is coordinated by Forschungzentrum Jülich (JUELICH) on behalf of PRACE aisbl.
PRACE-4IP is designed to build on and seamlessly continue the successes of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and start new innovative and collaborative activities that fit with the main objectives of the PRACE-4IP project:
- Assisting the transition to PRACE 2
- Strengthening the internationally recognised PRACE brand
- Preparing strategies and best practices towards exascale computing
- Coordinating and enhancing the operation of the multi-tier HPC systems and services
- Supporting and educating users to exploit massively parallel systems and novel architectures.
The successful and well-organized meeting was hosted by the local PRACE partner, IT4Innovations.
The two-day meeting was an excellent opportunity for all the PRACE-4IP partners to meet and discuss planned activities and first steps in the seven different work packages.
The work package meetings took place on the first day, setting the stage for the parallel intra-work package sessions that took place on the second day. Each work package team discussed how best to fine tune activities of each work package in order to meet upcoming deliverable due dates and milestones.
An enjoyable social event took place in the Ostrava Planetarium on April 28. This offered an excellent opportunity for partners to get to know one another and conduct informal discussions. Participants also enjoyed time to stroll the streets of scenic Ostrava, the third largest city in the Czech Republic, in the northeast of the country that forms the heart of the Moravian-Silesian region.
More information about PRACE-4IP: http://www.prace-ri.eu/prace-
About VŠB
VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava was founded in 1849, the fourth largest university in the Czech Republic with over 20,000 students studying in bachelor, master and doctoral degree programs in seven faculties and two all-university study programmes.
About PRACE
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an international non-profit association with its seat in Brussels. The PRACE Research Infrastructure provides a persistent world-class high performance computing service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry in Europe. The computer systems and their operations accessible through PRACE are provided by 4 PRACE members (BSC representing Spain, CINECA representing Italy, GCS representing Germany and GENCI representing France). The Implementation Phase of PRACE receives funding from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement RI-312763 and from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (2014-2020) under grant agreement 653838. For more information, see www.prace-ri.eu
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Source: PRACE