PRACE World-Class Computational Facilities Ready for Polish Scientific Community
Kupczyk Mirosław, Meyer Norbert
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center
ul. Noskowskiego 10, 61-704 Poznań, Poland
e-mail: {miron/meyer}@man.poznan.pl
Received:
Received: 30 September 2010; revised: 9 November 2010; published online: 23 November 2010
DOI: 10.12921/cmst.2010.SI.01.57-62
OAI: oai:lib.psnc.pl:686
Abstract:
The article presents the current state-of-the-art of the European HPC ecosystem design and implementation. It covers the benefits for all ecosystem stakeholders: scientific end-users, operational staff, architecture vendors, owners of the computational facilities. The PRACE – Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe initiative has started the preparation of the background towards the legal form of the related activities. It benefits in the creation of the PRACE non-profit association AISBL, registered in Brussels. During the implementation phase of PRACE, the scientific community has been given free and transparent access to the world-class supercomputing systems in Europe. Polish scientists and researchers may apply for the computational cycles.
Key words:
European Research Infrastructure, HPC ecosystem, Petaflops systems, PRACE, PRACE AISBL, users support
References:
[1] The Scientific Case for a European Super Computing Infrastructure,
http://www.hpcineuropetaskforce.eu/files/”Scientific case for European HPC infrastructure HET.pdf”, 2006.
[2] HET – HPC in Europe Taskforce, homepage: http://www.hpcineuropetaskforce.eu
[3] ESFRI – European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, homepage:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=esfri
[4] PRACE – Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe project, FP7/2007-2011, RI-211528, homepage: http://www.prace-project.eu
[5] PRACE-1IP – PRACE – First Implementation Phase Project, FP7 contract No 261557, homepage: http://www.prace-ri.eu/
[6] Chemically accurate simulation of a prototypical surface reaction: H2 dissociation on Cu(111). C. Díaz, E. Pijper, R.A. Olsen, H.F. Busnengo, D.J. Auerbach, G.J. Kroes. Science 6 November 2009
[7] DEISA – Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, FP7 contract No RI-222919, homepage: http://www.deisa.eu/
[8] A. D. Simpson, M. Bull, J. Hill, Identification and Categorisation of Applications and Initial Benchmarks Suite, http://www.praceproject. eu/document /Identification_and_Categorisatio_of_ Applications_and_Initial_Benchmark_Suite_final.pdf
[9] PRACE peer review process, www.prace-project.eu/hpcaccess
The article presents the current state-of-the-art of the European HPC ecosystem design and implementation. It covers the benefits for all ecosystem stakeholders: scientific end-users, operational staff, architecture vendors, owners of the computational facilities. The PRACE – Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe initiative has started the preparation of the background towards the legal form of the related activities. It benefits in the creation of the PRACE non-profit association AISBL, registered in Brussels. During the implementation phase of PRACE, the scientific community has been given free and transparent access to the world-class supercomputing systems in Europe. Polish scientists and researchers may apply for the computational cycles.
Key words:
European Research Infrastructure, HPC ecosystem, Petaflops systems, PRACE, PRACE AISBL, users support
References:
[1] The Scientific Case for a European Super Computing Infrastructure,
http://www.hpcineuropetaskforce.eu/files/”Scientific case for European HPC infrastructure HET.pdf”, 2006.
[2] HET – HPC in Europe Taskforce, homepage: http://www.hpcineuropetaskforce.eu
[3] ESFRI – European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, homepage:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=esfri
[4] PRACE – Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe project, FP7/2007-2011, RI-211528, homepage: http://www.prace-project.eu
[5] PRACE-1IP – PRACE – First Implementation Phase Project, FP7 contract No 261557, homepage: http://www.prace-ri.eu/
[6] Chemically accurate simulation of a prototypical surface reaction: H2 dissociation on Cu(111). C. Díaz, E. Pijper, R.A. Olsen, H.F. Busnengo, D.J. Auerbach, G.J. Kroes. Science 6 November 2009
[7] DEISA – Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, FP7 contract No RI-222919, homepage: http://www.deisa.eu/
[8] A. D. Simpson, M. Bull, J. Hill, Identification and Categorisation of Applications and Initial Benchmarks Suite, http://www.praceproject. eu/document /Identification_and_Categorisatio_of_ Applications_and_Initial_Benchmark_Suite_final.pdf
[9] PRACE peer review process, www.prace-project.eu/hpcaccess
