CSC opens a call for Grand Challenge proposals

19.03.2010

CSC opens a call for proposals for grand challenge projects to academic researchers. The next deadline of the call for proposals is: April 9th, 2010, at 16:00.

The call is aimed at high-impact scientific research that requires computational resources exceeding CSC's standard project quotas or other level of services. Additional services may include priority execution arrangements, special storage arrangements, performance optimization or equivalent support.

The research project can also focus on the analysis of massive data sets or on combining and comparing data from several sources.

The proposals will go through a technical and a scientific evaluation. The accepted projects will be executed in cooperation with CSC, and a project group will be assigned to each project.

The call Grand Challenge proposals will be opened twice a year.

About CSC: CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd., is a non-profit limited company administered by the Finnish Ministry of Education. Having core competences in modeling, computing and information services, CSC provides versatile IT services, support and resources for academia, research institutes, and companies. CSC provides Finland's widest selection of scientific software and databases and Finland's most powerful supercomputers that researchers can use via the Funet network.

More information and proposal form

More information on Grand Challenge proposals

Juha Fagerholm (computational)
+358 9 457 2447
juha.fagerholm at csc.fi

Yrjö Leino (data intensive)
+358 9 457 2071
yrjo.leino at csc.fi

Jura Tarus
+358 9 457 2256
jura.tarus at csc.f