Workshop "Call PRACE Tier-0" on October 4th, 2018

On October 4th, 2018 Cenaero organized a workshop on the topic "how to write a good proposal to PRACE Tier-0 calls".

The workshop was dedicated to share the experience of Belgian applicants and of  the PRACE reviewing process officer with potential new users. Thirty attendees from major Belgian  universities participated to the workshop, mostly new potential applicants. A fruitful questions session followed the presentations.

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, provides access to Europe's world class High Performance Computing Research Infrastructure (RI), enabling scientists and researchers from academia and industry to carry out complex and excellent experiments and simulations that address society's grand challenges.

PRACE activities are mainly:

• Access to computational resources
  • PRACE provides HPC resources to researchers and scientists from academia and industry through Preparatory Access (code scaling and optimization) and/or through Project Access (scientifically excellent, large-scale, computationally intensive projects). SMEs are invited to apply through the tailored SHAPE programme.
  • For Project Access, application can only be done when Calls are open and applications must be submitted by the published closing date and time. Proposals for Preparatory Access can be submitted continuously. Click here to receive an email alert for news.
  • Click here for complete details of the application procedure.
• Outreach activities
  • Reaching out to new and the next generation of computational scientists
• Training
  • Training the next generation of computational scientists.
  • Please follow the link to the complete list of trainings
• Operation of the european HPC infrastructure
  • Please follow the link for the description of the Tier-0 supercomputers
• Prototyping activities
  • Optimizing codes
  • Helping users run on Tier systems

Follow the links to download the presentations:

• "Introduction and Agenda" by Greg Hernandez, Senior HPC reseach engineer, Cenaero
• "PRACE Peer Review Process: How to prepare a good Project Access proposal"  by John Clifford, Peer Review Officer, PRACE-RI
• "Our Past Experience with Tier-0 at PRACE" by Professor Giovanni Lapenta, Plasma-Astrophysics section, Department of Mathematics, KU Leuven
• "PRACE Call 14 - R2Wall - From wall-resolved to wall-modeled LES" by Doctor Koen Hillewaert, Fluid Dynamics technology leader, Cenaero
• "PRACE Workshop: Lesson learned" by Professor Philippe Chatelain, Thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain

Thanks to the speakers and to the participants to the workshop.