3. - International not-for-profit association under
Belgian law based in Brussels.
- 25 members & 2 observers.
- Hosting Members: France, Germany, Italy & Spain.
- Governed by PRACE Council (each member has a
seat). Daily management is delegated to the Board of
Directors.
- Funded by its members & through Implementation
Projects supported by EC.
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe
4. MareNostrum: IBM
BSC, Barcelona
Spain
JUQUEEN: IBM
BlueGene/Q
GCS/FZJ
Jülich,
Germany
CURIE: Bull Bullx
GENCI/CEA
Bruyères-le-Châtel,
France
SuperMUC: IBM
GCS/LRZ Garching,
Germany
FERMI: IBM
BlueGene/Q
CINECA , Bologna,
Italy
HORNET: Cray
GCS/HLRS,
Stuttgart,
Germany
4 Hosting Members offering core hours
6 world-class machines
5. Free-of-charge required to publish results at the end of the award
period
www.prace-ri.eu/call-announcements/
Access through PRACE Peer-Review
Project Access (12, 24 or 36 months)
Preparatory Access (2 or 6 months)
SHAPE Programme (2 or 6 months)
6. – Transparency
– Fairness
– Avoiding conflict of interests at all stages of the process
– Confidentiality
– Right to reply to technical and scientific evaluations
– Right to appeal the final decision
Best science supported at the highest level
through a fair Peer-Review Process
Peer-Review Principles
7. Preparatory Access
- Intended for short-term access (2 or 6 months) to resources for
- code-enabling and porting,
- demonstrate the scalability of codes
- required to prepare proposals for Project Access
Open Call
for
Proposals
Admin/Technical
validation
Access
Start
date
Project
+
Final
Report
Researcher
Quaterly
Cut-off date
Up to 3 months
Award
decision
2 days ~ 30 days ~ 45 days
PRACE Staff +
Technical experts in
PRACE systems and
software
PRACE
BoD
8. Preparatory Access
- Allocation managed through a rolling call – no closing dates but technical evaluations
at undertaken regularly at defined cut-off dates.
- Proposals limited by:
- amount of resources available (Types A, B and C)
- availability of experts support (in terms of staff hours) & type of expertise
(typeC)
- Oversubscription of resources - awarded on a 1st-come, 1st-served basis to suitable
proposals according to submission date, until the resources are exhausted.
- Next cut-off dates:
01/06/2015 > 11:00 AM CEST (21st cut-off)
07/09/2015 > 11:00 AM CEST (22nd cut-off)
01/12/2015 > 11:00 AM CEST (23rd cut-off)
9. - Designed to SMEs willing to adopt a new HPC-supported solution
- Based on an integrated set of services:
– networking,
– training in PRACE Centres,
– expertise provided by HPC and domain-specific experts,
– access to PRACE HPC systems (Open R&D model)
- Support SMEs up to a proof-of-concept
- Co-development of a industrial project with PRACE experts using HPC resources.
- After the SHAPE demonstration, companies will have a clear view about:
– potential of HPC,
– investments to perform and skills to hire,
– software or methodologies to develop,
– next HPC Services to use : PRACE services for Open R&D, buying their own HPC facilities ,
remote access to HPC services on commercial Cloud platforms.
10. Project Access
Open Call
for
Proposals
Administrative +
Technical
Review
Scientific
Peer Review
PRACE staff
+
Technical
experts in
PRACE
systems and
software
Allocation
board
Priorisation
+
Resource
Allocation
Project
+
Final
Report
Researcher
Researchers
with expertise
in scientific
field of
proposal
~ 2 Months ~ 3 Months Up to 3 years
Right
to reply
11. Project Access
- Calls for Proposals are published twice per year:
- February > Access starting September
- September > Access starting March
- Applications must use codes:
- previously tested
- demonstrate high scalability & optimisation to multi-core architectures
- demonstrate a requirement for ensemble simulations that need a very large
amount of CPU overall.
12. 0
50
100
150
EA Call 1st Call 2nd Call 3rd Call 4th Call 5th Call 6th Call 7th Call 8th Call 9th Call
Requested Above technical threshold Awarded
The overall trend highlights the increasing importance and impact of PRACE
Tier-0 service for research.
PRACE’s impact on evolving research
13. 0
500
1.000
1.500
2.000
2.500
3.000
3.500
4.000
EA
Call
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Millionscorehours
Offer and demand of resources
Available resources Requested resources
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
EA
Call
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
% projects rejected after
technical review
PRACE’s impact on evolving research
14. Since mid-2012, PRACE has supported 50 companies, in the role of PI or research
team member collaborating in an academia-led project.
Industry participation in PRACE’s projects
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
EA Call 1st Call 2nd Call 3rd Call 4th Call 5th Call 6th Call 7th Call 8th Call 9th Call
Projecs awarded with industrial participation Industrial participants
16. PRACE’s impact on scientific production
The data reflect an increasing trend in all types of scientific production
supported by PRACE.
0
75
150
225
300
EA Call 1st Call 2nd Call 3rd Call 4th Call 5th Call
Publications Scientific talks Thesis
17. PRACE’s impact on training
PRACE has provided over 200 training events with over 5 000 trainees and 19 686
person-days of training (attendance-based), with an upward attendance trend
from both academia and industry communities
0
1500
3000
4500
6000
7500
9000
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs):
- BSC - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (Spain)
- CINECA – Consortio Interuniversitario (Italy)
- CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd. (Finland)
- EPCC – University of Edinburgh (UK)
- GCS (Germany)
- Maison de la Simulation (France)
18. 394 scientific projects enabled
530 M€ of funding for 2010-2015, access free at the
point of usage
18 Pflop/s of peak performance on 6 world-class systems
10.2 thousand million core hours awarded since 2010. Open R&D
access for industrial users with >50 companies supported
11 SHAPE projects (10 in 15th cut-off date + 1 in
20th cut-off date)
>5 000 people trained by 6 PRACE Advanced Training
Centers (PATCs) and others events (e.g. Season Schools)
