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• Free support for European businesses to adopt high-performance computing

  SHAPE offers European SMEs the opportunity to:

  • use HPC for business innovation
  • increase competitiveness
  • benefit from the expertise and knowledge developed within the top-class PRACE Research Infrastructure.

  Small and medium enterprises are the backbone of the European economy, and many could use high performance computing (HPC) to enhance their business. However, it can be challenging for SMEs to adopt HPC. They may have little in-house expertise, limited access to hardware, or be unable to commit resources to a potentially risky endeavour.

  This is where PRACE’s free SHAPE programme comes in, by making it easier for SMEs to try out their ideas for utilising HPC to enhance their business, for example to improve product quality, reduce time to delivery, or create innovative new services.

  Successful applicants to the SHAPE programme receive assistance from a PRACE HPC expert and access to major computing facilities. This assistance is provided free, but the SME is expected to:

  • contribute comparable effort (to PRACE staff) to the project to work with the PRACE partner
  • assist in the promotion of the project (eg via the SME’s online channels, industry publications etc)
  • produce an end-of-project technical paper on the project outcomes.

  In the months following completion of the project, follow-up reports are also requested from the SME to help evaluate the business impact.

  How to apply

  Calls to the SHAPE programme run every six months. SMEs apply via an online form (guidance is available from PRACE at this stage if required). Applications are reviewed by a PRACE-appointed committee.

  SHAPE Application deadlines

  • 9th Call: 1 April to 31 May 2019 is closed
  • 10th Call: 1 October 2019 to 1 December 2019

  
  Find more information:

  European HPC support for SMEs

  

   

  SHAPE (SME HPC Adoption Programme in Europe) is a pan-European initiative supported by the PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) project funded in part by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (2014-2020) under grant agreement 823767.

  SHAPE Success Stories

  SHAPE White Papers

  PRACE Support for Industry

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• 2014 Annual HPCwire Readers Choice Awards: PRACE and partners awarded! (Press Releases SHAPE)

  Tuesday 18 November 2014

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• PRACE SHAPE and NEXIO SIMULATION: Amping up electromagnetic modelling (Industrial stories SHAPE SHAPE Pilot Highlights Success stories)

  Wednesday 12 November 2014

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• PRACE SHAPE and NSilico pool HPC knowledge to develop faster sequencing methods (Industrial stories SHAPE SHAPE SHAPE Pilot Highlights Success stories)

  Monday 13 October 2014

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• PRACE SHAPE and OPTIMA Pharma: for cleaner clean rooms (Industrial stories PRACE supports Industry SHAPE SHAPE SHAPE Pilot Highlights Success stories)

  Wednesday 8 October 2014

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• Juan Yacht Design teams up with PRACE SHAPE to make faster sailboats. (PRACE supports Industry SHAPE SHAPE SHAPE Pilot Highlights Success stories)

  Thursday 18 September 2014

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• 2014 Annual HPCwire Readers Choice Awards – Vote for PRACE and partners! (Press Releases SHAPE SHAPE)

  Thursday 11 September 2014

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