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Advanced tools to design future jet engines
Increasingly stringent requirements for energy efficiency and noise reduction in jet engines are tightening the screw in their development and design. Cenaero, an applied research centre for modeling and numerical simulation, is developing new methods that will help in designing high-performance jet engines. Cenaero was granted access to PRACE resources in PRACE Preparatory Access for an industrial pilot project “noFUDGE”. Read more...
New insights into using “the process that powers the stars”
Turbulence simulations, carried out in the framework of the PRACE Research Infrastructure , have provided new insights into the fundamental processes of turbulent transport. This research is contributing to the understanding and optimisation of magnetic confinement in fusion devices. Ultimately, the goal is to be able to make predictions for ITER, an international flagship fusion experiment being built in Southern France. Read more...
A step forward in understanding electron transfer in organic solar cell materials
Organic solar cells have a promising future in renewable energy generation. However, there are a number of problems to be solved before they can break into the energy market. Characterisation of electron transfer in organic solar cell materials has taken one step forward, when a research team calculated charge carrier mobility and material structure with PRACE supercomputing resources. Read more...
Solving the mysteries of swine flu, epileptic seizure and other diseases
Paolo Carloni’s research group from German Research School for Simulation Sciences in Jülich was among the first projects which were granted access to the PRACE resources. Carloni’s group was granted for 48 758 784 core-hours on the JUGENE IBM BlueGene/P in the PRACE first regular call. The allocation is for one year ranging from November 2010 to October 2011. Read more...

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PRACE Workshop on HPC Approaches on Life Sciences and Chemistry

Thursday 19 January 2012

February 17 – 18, 2012
Dedeman Sofia Hotel Princes, Sofia, Bulgaria

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PRACE Spring School 2012, 16-18th May 2012, Kraków, Poland

Friday 13 January 2012

PRACE Spring School 2012 will take place from the 16th to the 18th of May 2012 in Poland in Kraków. In this three-day event, called ”School for Developers of Petascale Applications”, the participants will learn how to create efficient and scalable parallel codes for PRACE Tier-0 systems.

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PRACE Whitepapers

Wednesday 11 January 2012

A list of public whitepapers produced by the PRACE project

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PRACE Winter School 2012

Monday 9 January 2012

February 6-10, 2012, Bologna, Italy

The PRACE Winter School is an intense, 5 day, graduate level course in high performance computing, organized in the framework of the European project PRACE

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PRACE Preparatory Access - cut-off evaluation in September 2011

Wednesday 21 December 2011

Find below the results of the cut-off evaluation of the 1st of September 2011 for the PRACE Preparatory Access Calls. Type A - Code scalability testing Project name: Scalability testing of WRF meteorological for subsequent applications in regional climate studies Project leader: Ivan (...)

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PRACE Newsletter 6

Tuesday 13 December 2011

The sixth issue of the PRACE newsletter is published. Download below. Contents: Advanced tools to design future jet engines Meeting the PRACE Managing Director PRACE grants 812 million compute hours on Tier-0 and Tier-1 systems, new call open PRACE at SC’11 Featured PRACE events Featured (...)

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Appointment of Chief Scientific Advisor

Tuesday 13 December 2011

Brussels, 05 December 2011 – President Barroso has today appointed the Commission’s first Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor Anne Glover. Professor Glover will provide high-level and independent scientific advice throughout all stages of policy development and delivery. The Chief Scientific (...)

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SC11 PRACE presentations

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Keynote speech at SC11 "PRACE 2020 – a vision for a sustainable European HPC – Infrastructure", presented by PRACE Council Chair Achim Bachem SC’11 BoF "PRACE – The European HPC Infrastructure" on 17 Nov. 2011 Experiences and Perspectives after one Year of PRACE Operation, presented by Thomas (...)

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PRACE awards 91 million processor core hours on the DECI call to 35 projects, new call open

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Europe’s HPC infrastructure PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, announced that 35 projects, selected from 54 proposals, will share 91 million processor core hours awarded by the most recent DECI (Distributed European Computing Initiative) call. The consortia of European (...)

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