Call for proposals for PRACE Preparatory Access – Next Cut-Off September 2nd, 2013

Dear users,
for your information.
Regards,
HPC User Support @ CINECA
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PRACE Preparatory Access Call for Tier-0 —————————————-
Preparatory access (PA) is intended for testing and developing codes in order to prepare applications for PRACE Tier-0 project access. In particular, we would like to draw your attention to the Preparatory Access Type C which includes code development with support from PRACE experts. Further information are given on the PRACE web page: http://www.prace-ri.eu/Call-Announcements
The Preparatory Access Call is a rolling call, researchers can apply for access all year. There are no closing dates, proposals will be reviewed every third month. The next cutoff date is September 2nd, 2013, 11:00 AM CEST.
The systems available for Preparatory Access are: CURIE, BULL Bullx cluster (GENCI@CEA, France) FERMI, IBM Blue Gene/Q (CINECA, Italy) HERMIT, Cray XE6 (GCS@HLRS, Germany) JUQUEEN, IBM Blue Gene/Q (GCS@JSC, Germany) MareNostrum, IBM System X iDataplex (BSC, Spain) SuperMUC, IBM System X iDataplex (GCS@LRZ, Germany)
  From the 14th cut-off date (2 September 2013) onwards the   hybrid partition of MareNostrum is available for PA.
  At this moment the core hours on the CURIE Hybrid partition   have been exhausted for 2013. This partition will be available   again in 2014 (next cut-off date: 3 March 2014 – 16th cut-off).
JSC invites all interested scientists, whose projects fit the criteria of the PRACE call to submit their projects. The criteria for the PRACE Calls as well as complete information on the PRACE machines, how to apply and on the PRACE peer review process can be found at

If you need some extra information please feel free to contact PRACE directly via
peer-review@prace-ri.eu
or CINECA UserSupport at
superc@cineca.it.