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Two new countries joined PRACE

Signing the Memorandum of Understanding
From left to right: Dr. Ir. A. Osseyran, Managing Director of SARA, Dr. Patrick Aerts, Director of NCF and Prof. James Slevin, Director of the Irish Centre for High-End Computing on 29 May in Schiphol, The Netherlands.
From left to right: Dr. Ir. A. Osseyran, Managing Director of SARA, Dr. Patrick Aerts, Director of NCF and Prof. James Slevin, Director of the Irish Centre for High-End Computing on 29 May in Schiphol, The Netherlands.

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 increased to 16 as Ireland and Turkey signed the Memorandum of Understanding on 29 May in Schiphol, The Netherlands.

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Patrick Aerts, chairman of the PRACE Initiative Management Board, Prof. James Slevin, Director of the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC) and Prof. M. Serdar Celebi, Project Director of the National Center for High Performance Computing (UYBHM).

Several additional countries have also expressed their interest in the initiative. Thus, the coverage of PRACE is getting wider in Europe.

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

More information: PRACE website
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. The PRACE project receives funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° RI-211528.