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PRACE Call 14 now open – More Systems, More Power, More Hours

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  • Foilseachán 13 Deireadh Fómhair 2016

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) Research Infrastructure provides world-class high performance computing service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry in Europe. PRACE welcomes CSCS (CH) as the 5th PRACE hosting partner making available their system Piz Daint, and the new MareNostrum4 system provided by BSC (ES). In total PRACE can offer more than 2000 million compute core hours which is 3 times more than in previous calls.

PRACE

The PRACE Call 14 is the start of a new era under PRACE 2 programme with 5 hosting partners (BSC representing Spain, CSCS representing Switzerland, CINECA representing Italy, GCS representing Germany and GENCI representing France) and 7 systems. PRACE offers a wide variety of system architectures which provides to the user with a diversity of resources for their research projects e.g. from standard x86 and MPP architectures to many core hours and hybrid systems. PRACE  Call 14 offers in total 2000 million compute core hours and now offers a cumulated peak performance of more than 50 Petaflops.

PRACE systems available:

Scientists and researchers can apply for access to PRACE resources and industrial users can apply if they have their head offices or substantial R&D activity in Europe.

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