The overall number of partners in the initiative has increased to 20 as Bulgaria and Czech Republic signed the Memorandum of Understanding on 8 September 2009 in Toulouse, France.

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Prof. Stoyan Markov - head of the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications for Bulgaria and Martin Duda - Head of Operational Programmes Centre of the VŠB -Technical University of Ostrava for the Czech Republic.

The following countries collaborate in PRACE: Germany (project coordinator), Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and UK.

More information: www.prace-project.eu , e-mail: prace-coordinator@fz-juelich.de

About PRACE: The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) prepares the creation of a persistent pan-European HPC service, consisting of several tier-0 centres providing European researchers with access to capability computers and forming the top level of the European HPC ecosystem. PRACE is a project funded in part by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° RI-211528.