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DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010 in Barcelona: Exciting Computational Science and Future HPC Technologies 05.03.2010

DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe organise a second major European event in High Performance Computing: the DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010. This symposium will take place from May 10 to May 12 in Barcelona, Spain. It will be hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) at the famous Casa Milà, also known as “La Pedrera”(a modernist building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí). The theme of this unique symposium is “Advancements in PetaFlop-Computing”. The symposium covers both European and international developments. Read more

PRACE evaluated additional prototypes for next generation architectures 26.02.2010

In addition to the well-known PRACE prototypes for the first generation of European Tier-0 centers, the PRACE work package for “Future Petaflop/s computer technologies beyond 2010” has evaluated 12 Read more

PRACE to establish a Scientific Steering Committee 23.02.2010

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, holds a workshop on April 20, 2010, at Forschungszentrum Jülich to establish its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). Read more

PRACE Benchmark Suite Finalised 15.02.2010

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, selected 22 applications for the final PRACE application benchmark suite. The benchmark suite covers application areas from the PRACE Research Read more

New call for Proposals for PRACE Prototype testing 17.12.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, invites researchers from academia and industry to test applications on prototypes of potential future HPC Petascale systems. Read more

New PRACE training material available - 48 hours videos and 69 presentations 15.12.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has produced 48 hours HPC (High Performance Computing) training videos that can be downloaded free of charge. The material for the videos was Read more

PRACE Award 2010: Call for Papers has Started 03.12.2009

The call for papers for the PRACE Award 2009 has begun. It will be the third time the PRACE Award will be presented at the ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) Opening Session. Read more

PRACE Task Leader Tim Stitt wins HPC Open Education Cup 2008–2009 24.11.2009

Tim Stitt from CSCS, Switzerland has won the “Parallel Programming Models and Languages" category of the HPC Open Education Cup 2008–2009. He was also awarded the prize for Best Overall Module. Read more

Pictures from SC09 23.11.2009

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Have also a look on new presentations from SC09. Read more

PRACE Prototype the Greenest Supercomputer on Earth 19.11.2009

eQPACE, one of the advanced prototypes evaluated by PRACE (the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), ranked at number 1 on the new Green500 list published at the Supercomputing09 conference in Portland, OR. Read more

PRACE is Ready for Implementation 16.11.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is eligible to apply for a grant under the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme to start the implementation phase. Read more

PRACE is Ready for Implementation: Applications ported 16.11.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has explored promising petascaling techniques. Related work has been done on optimization techniques and on studying software libraries and Read more

PRACE at SC09 12.11.2009

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Be up-to-date with PRACE and visit the PRACE booth (# 2973) at SC09. PRACE project members will be on hand to answer to your questions about the project and the future of PRACE. Read more

PRACE Stream Computing Workshop to be held in Stockholm 05.11.2009

The Stockholm Stream Computing Center, in association with PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, will arrange a workshop on stream computing on December 7–10, 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Read more

Supercomputer Experts met at the First European Workshop on HPC Centre Infrastructures 04.11.2009

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre – CSCS in collaboration with CEA of France and BAdW-LRZ of Germany organized the first European workshop on HPC infrastructures on 2–4 September 2009, in Read more

Italy became a PRACE Principal Partner 30.10.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, got a new Principal Partner in its recent meeting as Italy became one of the PRACE Principal Partners. The representative PRACE partner site from Italy is CINECA (Consorzio Interuniversitario). Read more

Six Projects granted Access to the PRACE Prototype Systems - 4.5 Million Core Hours 15.10.2009

Six projects, three from Ireland, two from France and one from Spain, have been granted access to the PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) prototype systems. These projects will spend a total of 4 449 713 core hours on the PRACE prototypes. Read more

European industry went HPC with PRACE in Toulouse 01.10.2009

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The second PRACE industry seminar “Europe goes HPC” was held in Toulouse on 7–8 September. It attracted more than 100 participants from 21 countries with executive attendees representing 57 companies Read more

Lisbon selected as the First PRACE Headquarters Location 24.09.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, decided to place its headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal, starting in 2010. The selection of Lisbon as the seat of the PRACE headquarters is an Read more

ACC CYFRONET AGH organises PRACE code porting workshop in Cracow, Poland 17.09.2009

Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH, in Cracow, Poland organises a PRACE code porting workshop. The workshop will be held on 14–16 October in Cracow, Poland, at the same time with the Cracow Grid Workshop 2009. Read more

Bulgaria and Czech Republic joined PRACE 09.09.2009

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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, got two new member countries as Bulgaria and Czech Republic joined the initiative on 8 September 2009. The overall number of partners in the Read more

PRACE HPC Training Video Material Available 04.09.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has produced a set of 16 HPC (High Performance Computing) training videos that can be downloaded free of charge. Read more

BSC arranges a PRACE code porting and optimization workshop 11.08.2009

BSC, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, in association with PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, will arrange the first BSC-PRACE code porting and optimization workshop in 21-23 Read more

First projects granted access to the PRACE Prototype systems - 4.4 Million Core hours to 3 projects 22.07.2009

Three projects, two from Ireland and one from France, have been granted access to the PRACE prototype systems. The purpose of this granting access is to enable future Tier-0 users to assess the Read more

Presentations and pictures from ISC'09 29.06.2009

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Presentations from the PRACE networking session at ISC'09 and pictures from ISC'09 are now available. Download presentations from www.prace-project.eu/documents Read more

PRACE organises an industry seminar for potential European High Performance Computing users 26.06.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, a consortium of the 16 leading supercomputing centers in Europe, will arrange a seminar for potential industry users in Toulouse, France, on Read more

PRACE part of La Recherche magazine 26.06.2009

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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is part of the latest issue, June 2009, of La Recherche magazine. This number is a special issue on HPC. Modelling the climate and its changes, Read more

PRACE at ISC’09 01.06.2009

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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, takes an active role at ISC’09, Hamburg, Germany on June 23-26, 2009. PRACE arranges a networking session during ISC’09. Read more

DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009 attracted almost 200 participants from more than 20 countries and four continents 22.05.2009

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DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, for the first time merged their annual science symposia Read more

PRACE hosted a Seminar on CUDA and HMPP 18.05.2009

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12 HPC (High Performance Computing) experts from six PRACE countries met end of April near Paris for an intense four day training on the latest GPGPU (General-purpose computing on graphics processing units) programming languages. Read more

Presentations from the DEISA PRACE Symposium available 14.05.2009

The DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009 took place at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam on May 11 - 13, 2009. The presentations from the symposium are available on: Read more

PRACE in the latest GridBriefing 06.05.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is part of the latest GridBriefing publication. You can read and download the publication here (pdf). About PRACE: The Partnership for Advanced Read more

CSC and CSCS Arrange Two PRACE Code-Porting Workshops 23.04.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, will arrange two code-porting workshops this summer at CSC Finland and CSCS Switzerland. The workshops are part of a series of PRACE Read more

PRACE Award 2009 Winner Announced 22.04.2009

PRACE, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, awards a prize for an outstanding scientific paper submitted to ISC’09 by a European student or young scientist on petascaling. Read more

Call for Proposals for PRACE Prototype testing 09.04.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, invites researchers from academia and industry to test applications on prototypes of potential future HPC Petascale systems. Read more

PRACE evaluates Technologies for Future Multi-Petaflop/s Systems 30.03.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has selected a range of promising system and component prototypes for multi-Petaflop/s class systems to be deployed beyond 2010. Prototypes will be installed at eight partner sites starting in 2009. Read more

PRACE to implement STRATOS – a Permanent Research Platform 24.03.2009

Fourteen partners have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a permanent research platform called STRATOS. The MoU was signed by 12 PRACE partners, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, and two associated partners. Read more

PRACE in the latest Projects magazine 05.03.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is part of the latest Projects magazine. In the article "Europe to lead in high-end computing infrastructure" PRACE project manager Thomas Read more

A new world record in Go established by PRACE prototype and French software 02.03.2009

This is a joint press release of NWO-NCF/EW, SARA and PRACE At the Taiwan Open 2009 held in Taiwan from February 10-13, the Dutch national supercomputer Huygens, which is located at SARA Computing Read more

HPC Infrastructures for Petascale Applications – DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009 25.02.2009

DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, are – for the first time – merging their annual science Read more

PRACE hosts highly successful Winter School 25.02.2009

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In a highly successful training event, organised by PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) in Athens, Greece, talented European HPC researchers and students received advanced training on petascaling techniques. Read more

PRACE held All Hands Meeting in Jülich, Germany, February 12-13, 2009 16.02.2009

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Close to 90 PRACE project members met for a mid-term all hands meeting of the PRACE project at the Research Center Jülich (FZJ). Prof. Achim Bachem, Chairman of the Board of FZJ and Coordinator of the Read more

Serbia joins the PRACE initiative 12.02.2009

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has a new member country - Serbia - which joined the initiative on 16 December 2008. The overall number of countries in the initiative has Read more

PRACE Part of Zero-In Magazine - Call for Papers Open 03.02.2009

BELIEF Zero-In magazine showcases the research and development activities in the world of e-Infrastructures and is a forum for news, comment and analysis on this exciting new research paradigm. Read more

Reminder: PRACE Award 2009 15.01.2009

The call for papers for the PRACE Award 2009 will close on February 1, 2009. It will be the second time the PRACE Award will be presented at the ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) Opening Session. Read more

PRACE Award 2009: Call for Papers has Started 18.12.2008

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The call for papers for the PRACE Award 2009 has begun. It will be the second time the PRACE Award will be presented at the ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) Opening Session. Read more

PRACE hosts First Scientific Conference 16.12.2008

The first PRACE Scientific Conference was held on 26 November 2008 in Lyon in conjunction with ICT 2008, the largest research event for information and communication technologies in Europe. Read more

PRACE arranges Winter School on Petascale Computing in Athens, Greece 15.12.2008

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, organizes a Winter School on Petascale Computing from February 10–13, 2009 at the training Center of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE Academy) in Athens, Greece. Read more

Presentations from PRACE scientific workshop available 01.12.2008

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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, arranged a scientific workshop in Lyon on November 26, held in parallel with ICT 2008. Presentations from the workshop are available here. Read more

Cyprus joins the PRACE initiative 18.11.2008

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has a new member country - Cyprus - which joined the initiative on 29 October 2008. The overall number of countries in the initiative has Read more

Pictures from the PRACE booth at SC08! 18.11.2008

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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, showcased the project at SC08, SuperComputing08, in booth 2921. PRACE will presented the project and its achievements, especially the selection Read more

PRACE arranges Winter School in February 2009 in Athens 31.10.2008

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced for Advanced Computing, arranges Petascale Computing Winter School in Athens on 10–13 February 2009. The PRACE Petascale Computing Winter School will take place at Read more

PRACE looks forward to SC08 30.10.2008

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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, showcases the project at SC08, SuperComputing08, in booth 2921. PRACE will present the project and its achievements, especially the selection Read more

PRACE hosts scientific workshop during ICT 2008 15.10.2008

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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is arranging a scientific workshop in Lyon on November 26, to be held in parallel with ICT 2008. The themes of the scientific workshop are Read more

PRACE investigated application requirements 13.10.2008

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, investigated application requirements for European Petaflop systems. The investigation work consists of an analysis of the behaviour of a set Read more

1st PRACE Industry Seminar greatly successful 19.09.2008

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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, organised a one-day seminar titled “Industrial Competitiveness: Europe goes HPC”. The seminar targeted large European companies with potential Read more

PRACE selected promising architectures 01.09.2008

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PRACE, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has selected a broad coverage of promising architectures for Petaflop/s-class systems to be deployed in 2009/2010. Prototypes will be installed at six partner sites starting in 2008. Read more

First candidate applications for PRACE Petaflop/s systems identified 17.07.2008

PRACE, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has recently conducted a major survey of the utilisation of HPC (High Performance Computing) resources across Europe. Read more

Europe’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) training and education needs revealed in comprehensive survey 15.07.2008

To remain competitive at the cutting edge of simulation science, Europe’s top computational scientists will be required to harness the huge computing potential offered by Petascale computing Read more

PRACE award presented to young scientist at ISC’08 18.06.2008

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PRACE, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, awarded a prize for the best scientific paper submitted to ISC’08 by a European student or young scientist on petascaling. Read more

PRACE awards prize for outstanding scientific paper at ISC’08 12.06.2008

PRACE, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, awards a prize for an outstanding scientific paper submitted to ISC’08 by a European student or young scientist on petascaling. Read more

PRACE hosts a BoF session at ISC'08 12.06.2008

PRACE, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, hosts a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session "Building the HPC Ecosystem" at ISC'08. The session will take place in conference room 2, level 4 on Wednesday 18 June, at 6.00-6.45 P.M. Read more

Two new countries joined PRACE 03.06.2008

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PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, got two new member countries as Ireland and Turkey joined the initiative on 29 May 2008. The overall number of partners in the initiative has Read more

DEISA2 engaging for a European HPC Ecosystem 23.05.2008

The DEISA Consortium operating the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications was awarded a further three year contract within the EU Framework Programme 7. As of May 1, 2008, Read more

PRACE hosts Petascale Summer School in Sweden 21.05.2008

The PRACE project (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) hosts Petascale Summer School August 26–29, 2008 at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, in Stockholm, Sweden. Read more

Architectures of future PRACE Petascale systems are taking shape 14.05.2008

PRACE is working towards a pan-European HPC infrastructure with a number of tier-0 Petascale systems, running from 2010 onwards and providing the computational resources for the major challenges for computational scientists. Read more

Starting a European Research Infrastructure 30.01.2008

Over 60 representatives from 14 European Countries held the kick-off meeting of the PRACE project at the Research Centre Jülich on January 29 and 30, 2008. PRACE lays the foundations for a future Read more

PRACE-Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe launched in January 09.01.2008

The PRACE was launched to enable European scientists and engineers to access world class resources when it comes to supercomputing. 14 partners are already involved. Read more

Memorandum of Understanding signed for the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) 17.04.2007

17.04.2007 Computation has become essential for the advancement of all research across science. But the high-performance computing resources are limited and a European effort is needed to treat the Read more