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PRACE aims at Permanent HPC Research Infrastructure
The PRACE (the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) project started in January 2008. The project aims at creating a pan-European Research Infrastructure that will provide a leading HPC service to enable world-class science.
The implementation phase will begin in 2010 if everything goes as planned. During this phase several Petaflop/s systems will be deployed at different European sites.
PRACE has produced a set of HPC (High Performance Computing) training videos that can be viewed free of charge on the PRACE website.
The videos and training events are part of PRACE’s training and education programme, which aims to prepare and initiate a sustainable and comprehensive European HPC education and training programme encompassing summer schools, winter schools, training workshops and training material.
Testing on the PRACE Prototypes
In 2008 PRACE selected a broad coverage of promising architectures for Petaflop/s-class systems to be deployed in 2009/2010. PRACE analysed key scientific applications and mapped them to suitable architectures. As a result six prototypes were selected. One of the PRACE prototypes is the joint CSC / CSCS (National Supercomputer Center) Cray XT5 prototype located at CSC.
The prototypes are intended for testing. Prototype access is granted after a technical review by the PRACE partner hosting the prototype. Nine projects have been granted access to the PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) prototype systems. It has been possible to apply for prototype access grants via the PRACE website.
The purpose of this granting access is to enable future Tier-0 users to assess the prototypes and to prepare their applications for the Petaflop infrastructure. The evaluation process has focused on technical feasibility and the expected benefits of the tests both for PRACE and the prototype users.
Anni Jakobsson
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