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HPC & AI Wall StreetMarch 26, 2018 — PRACE’s 17th Call for Proposals for Project Access is now open.
Opening date: 07 March 2018
Closing date: 02 May 2018, 10:00 CET
Applicants’ reply to scientific reviews: July 2018
Submission of a progress/final report for continuation projects: 22 July 2018
Communication of allocation decision: End of September 2018
Allocation period for awarded proposals: 02 October 2018 – 01 October 2019
Type of Access: Project Access and Multi-Year Project Access
| System | Architecture | Site (Country) | Core Hours (node hours) | Minimum request |
| Joliot Curie – SKL | Bull Sequana X1000 | GENCI@CEA (FR) | 134 million (2.8 million) | 15 million core hours |
| Joliot Curie – KNL | BULL Sequana X1000 | GENCI@CEA (FR) | 72 million (1.1 million) | 15 million core hours |
| Hazel Hen | Cray XC40 System | GCS@HLRS (DE) | 70 million (2.9 million) | 35 million core hours |
| JUWELS | Multicore cluster | GCS@JSC (DE) | 70 million (1.5 million) | 35 million core hours |
| Marconi-Broadwell | Lenovo System | CINECA (IT) | 36 million (1 million) | 15 million core hours |
| Marconi-KNL | Lenovo System | CINECA (IT) | 612 million (9 million) | 30 million core hours |
| MareNostrum | Lenovo System | BSC (ES) | 240 million (5 million) | 15 million core hours |
| Piz Daint | Cray XC50 System | CSCS (CH) | 510 million (7.5 million) | 68 million core hours Use of GPUs |
| SuperMUC SuperMUC-NG |
Lenovo NextScale/ Lenovo ThinkSystem |
GCS@LRZ (DE) | 105 million (3.8 million) |
35 million core hours |
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an international non-profit association (aisbl) with its seat in Brussels. 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. 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 agreements 653838 and 730913.
The computer systems (called Tier-0 systems) and their operations that are accessible through PRACE are provided for this 17th call by 5 PRACE hosting members: BSC representing Spain, CINECA representing Italy, CSCS representing Switzerland, GCS representing Germany and GENCI representing France.
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 Call is open to:
Project Access: Proposals can be based on a 12-months schedule (Single-year Projects), or, on a 24- or 36-months schedule (Multi-year Projects). The allocation of awarded resources is made 1 year at a time with provisional allocations awarded for the 2nd and 3rd year.
Additionally, the Call:
reserves 0.5% of the total resources available for this call for Centres of Excellence (CoE) as selected by the European Commission under the E-INFRA-5-2015 call for proposals.
The PRACE Access Committee, composed of leading international scientists and engineers, ranks the proposals received and produces a recommendation to award PRACE resources based on scientific and technical excellence.
The Terms of Reference can be found here
The Technical Guidelines for Applicants can be found here
The form for the Project Scope and Plan can be found here
PRACE Project Access Calls 18 and 19
Provisional Planning
- Call 18
- Opening of the call: 4 September 2018
- Closing of the call: 30 October 2018, 10:00 Brussels time
- Allocation period: From 2 April 2019 to 1 April 2020
- Call 19
- Opening of the call: 5 March 2019
- Closing of the call: 30 April 2019, 10:00 Brussels time
- Allocation period: From 1 October 2019 to 30 September 2020
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.
More information can be found here:
For development and scaling of HPC codes, PRACE offers Preparatory Access here
Please note: The dates in these schedules are a pre-announcement and may need to be adjusted due to unforeseen circumstances. The schedules published on these pages supersede all previously released schedules for PRACE Calls for Proposals.
Source: PRACE
