Call Announcements

PRACE encourages researchers from across Europe to apply for access to its world class resources for research with potential high European and international impact. PRACE resources are available through three forms of access: Programme Access, Project Access and Preparatory Access. Programme Access is available to major European projects or infrastructures that can benefit from PRACE resources and for which Project Access is not appropriate. Project Access is intended for individual researchers and research groups including multi-national research groups and has a one year duration. Calls for Proposals for Project Access are issued twice yearly (May and November). Preparatory Access is intended for resource use required to prepare proposals for Project Access. Applications for Preparatory Access are accepted at any time.

Programme and Project Access are subject to a PRACE peer review process. This process includes a technical evaluation seeking to assure that the proposed use of PRACE resources is both feasible and efficient, followed by a scientific peer review. The scientific peer review is conducted by European experts in the field of the application for PRACE resources. The Peer Review process, managed by PRACE staff, is overseen by the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee composed of leading European scientists appointed by the PRACE Council.

Preparatory Access requests are only subject to a technical evaluation.

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Open calls

 Call for proposals for 5th PRACE Project Access and Multi-year Access (Tier-0) and synchronized DECI-9 Call (Tier-1)

This call is open from April 17th, 2012 and will close on May 30st, 2012, at 12.00 CEST.

Six Tier-0 machines are 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).

The Tier-1 HPC systems are IBM Blue Gene/Q and Blue Gene/P, Cray XT and XE, IBM Power 6, range of large clusters including GPU resources, available from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, The Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and United Kingdom.

The joint 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

 PRACE Preparatory Access

Continuously open for proposals. The systems that are available for Project Access are also available for Preparatory Access. Information for Preparatory Access can be found here.

Next cutoff dates: 1 June 2012, noon, 12:00 CET (GMT+01)

ALERT CORRIGENDUM (availability of JUQUEEN):

• BlueGene/P system (JUGENE) will be replaced by a BlueGene/Q system (JUQUEEN) end of July 2012. Thus, awarded proposals cannot start on JUQUEEN before 1st of August 2012, at the earliest.
• Due to unavailability of the system during the full month of October 2012, type B & C awarded proposals on JUQUEEN will be for 7 months rather than 6 months.
• For more details see http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/juqueen

Where to submit: PRACE Peer Review

Closed Calls

• PRACE Project Access - 4th call for proposals for Tier-0 and Synchronized Call for Tier-1. This call opened November 2nd, 2011 and closed January 10th, 2012, at 16.00 CET. Six Tier-0 machines were available : IBM Blue Gene/P “JUGENE” (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). The call for proposals can be found here
  The Tier-1 HPC systems were available from: Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Sweden, The Netherlands, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, and United Kingdom. The DECI application form can be found here

• PRACE Project Access - 3rd call for proposals for Tier-0 and Synchronized Pilot Call for Tier-1. This call opened May 2nd 2011 and closed June 22nd 2011, 16;00 CEST. Three Tier-0 machines were available: IBM Blue Gene/P “JUGENE” (GCS@Jülich, Germany); Bull BULL Bullx cluster “CURIE” (GENCI@CEA, France); Cray XE6 “HERMIT” (GCS@HLRS, Germany). The call for proposals can be found here
  The Tier-1 HPC systems were available from: Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and UK. The DECI application form can be found here.

• PRACE Project Access – 2nd Call for Proposals. This call opened November 1 2010 and closed January 11, 2011, 16.00 CET. A total of 46 proposals were received and 17 proposals requesting 400 million core hours were granted access. Two systems were available for this call, the 1 PF, 294 912 core, 147 TB IBM BlueGene/P - JUGENE - hosted by the Gauss-Centre in Jülich, Germany and the 92 160.core 360 TB Curie system funded by GENCI and hosted by CEA, Paris, France. The call for proposals can be found here.

• PRACE Project Access - 1st call for proposals. This call opened June 15, 2010 and closed August 15, 2010. A total of 59 proposals were received of which 33 proposals from investigators in 12 countries requesting a total of 1373 million core hours passed technical assessment. 22 proposals requesting 808 million core hours were considered fundable in the peer review and 9 proposals requesting 362 million core hours were granted access.

• PRACE Early Access call opened May 10 and closed June 10, 2010. A total of 68 proposals were received of which 39 proposals from investigators in 13 European countries passed the technical assessment. Ten proposals were granted a 332 million core hours. 31 proposals requesting a total of 1092 million core hours were deemed fundable in the peer review.

It is strongly advised that applicants read the information on PRACE Resource Access before applying for PRACE resources.

Information on the peer review process can be found here.

For technical questions about the capability and current software installed on PRACE systems, go to PRACE Resources where the different systems are described.