Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

A consortium of Austrian universities, represented by the ACONET Association, joined the "Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe" (PRACE) in July 2018 (see  Press Release).

This opens up new opportunities in the field of supercomputing for researchers and students in Austria:

• Apply for PRACE HPC Access

• Preparatory Access allows to optimize own codes for the target system (continuously open call). Support by experts is available (evaluated and granted on a quarterly schedule).
  
  
• Project Access is for production runs using codes that have been previously tested and that demonstrate high scalability and optimization to multi-core architectures or that demonstrate a requirement for ensemble simulations that need a very large amount of CPU/GPU overall.
  

  The 20th Call for Proposals for Project Access is open from 20 September 2019 until 29 October 2019, 10:00 CET.
  
  In addition, the 20th Call for Proposals pilots an improved Industry Access Track and reserves a part of the resources available for this call for Centres of Excellence (CoE) as selected by the European Commission under the E-INFRA-5-2015 call for proposals.

• Participate in PRACE Events
• Participate in PRACE Training
• PRACE MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) via FutureLearn
  
  • Online Course "Supercomputing"
  • Online Course "Python in High Performance Computing"
  • Online Course "Defensive Programming and Debugging"
  • Online Course "Managing Big Data with R and Hadoop"
  • Online Course "MPI: A Short Introduction to One-sided Communication"

• PRACE for Industry
• Subscribe to PRACE Newsletters
• Subscribe to "PRACE in Austria" mailing list
  
  

Additional Information

• PRACE FAQs
• PRACE Fact Sheets
• PRACE Annual Reports
• PRACE - The Scientific Case for Computing in Europe 2018-2026
  
  

PRACE in Austria

• The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research has designated the ACONET Association as an institutional Austrian representation in the PRACE Council.
• PRACE Council Delegate for Austria is Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christoph Dellago (University of Vienna).
• PRACE Council Adviser for Austria is Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Ostermann (University of Innsbruck).
• Archive: previous Austrian membership via RISC / JKU (until 2016)