NEWSLETTER 16 September 2015

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PRACE awarded resources to 11 06 SMEs through the second SHAPE Call

PRACE Digest 2015 09 Women in HPC Another successful 11 Summer of HPC

PRACE at ISC 2015 13

PRACE SUCCESS STORIES

The virtual laboratory

ColophonEditors: Stelios Erotokritou Audrey Gerber Emma Hogan Anni Jakobsson Tiina Leiponen Mateja Maffi Marjolein Oorsprong Karina Pesatova

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The virtual laboratory 03

PRACE awarded resources to 11 SMEs 06 through the second SHAPE Call

PRACE Digest 2015 09 Women in HPC

Another successful Summer of HPC 11

PRACE at ISC 2015 13

Exhibition Extrapolácie 2015 14 at the Slovak Technical Museum

PRACE Networking Session at ICT 2015 - 15 High Performance Data Analytics to conquer Europe!

PRACE at SC15 16

PRACE at the Long Night of Science in Austria 17

PRACEdays16 will be held in Prague, Czech Republic 18

PRACE Achievements in Numbers 19

PRACE Training Events 23

PRACE and DECI access in 2015 25

PRACE Annual Report 2014 and 26 PRACE Women in HPC Magazine 2015

The Implementation Phase of PRACE receives funding from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement RI-312763 and from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (2014-2020) under grant agreement 653838.

In the late 1980s, researchers from Toyota demon- strated that by reinforcing polymers such as nylon with clay at the nanoscale, a significant improvement in a wide range of engineering properties could be made. Known as clay-polymer nanocomposites, these materials have very low density but are also tough and strong – ideal properties for the building of vehicles.

Extensive research into these materials has been going on ever since, and although there has been some success in finding useful new composites, it has proven to be difficult. The same researchers who made the initial discovery when working for Toyota recently wrote about the relative scarcity of such discoveries since their breakthrough almost thirty years ago, citing the laborious trial and error nature of the exploratory experiments required, but also a fundamental lack of understanding of how and why materials such as clay-polymer nano-composites possess such anomalous properties.

Professor Peter Coveney of University College London, in collaboration with his colleagues Dr James Suter and Dr Derek Groen, has been working on ways of connecting different repre-sentations of matter together, which he believes is the first step towards speeding up the process of discovering new and useful materials. “Imagine, for example, a material that has fractured. At the molecular level, this is shown as the breaking of chemical bonds by electrons moving between atoms, whereas the manifestation on a larger scale

would be the breaking of a component made of that material. These are very different representations of the same event, but both are equally correct. To simulate this event separately at different scales is relatively easy. What is not so easy is to connect the two – to extrapolate the macroscale properties of a material from its chemical composition.”

Creating a description of a material that works at all scales without having to inject ad hoc para- meters at higher levels is a crucial step towards in silico materials discovery. To pull off “multiscale modelling”, as it is known, the lowest level para- meters must be extremely precise, and the most powerful computers are needed in order to run the simulations. But the rewards for succeeding in this task are great; if one can predict the useful physical properties of a material from its molecular structure, then costly and time-consuming trial and error experiments can be eliminated from the discovery process.

In February 2015, the journal Advanced Materials published a paper by Suter, Groen and Coveney that discusses the properties of a number of clay- polymer nanocomposites. However, it is not the specific materials that make the paper so intere- sting, but rather the groundbreaking methods behind the research. In the paper, they describe a method that can be used to calculate the properties of claypolymer nanocomposites using multiscale modelling. The only inputs needed for this “virtual laboratory” are chemical composition,

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The virtual laboratory Supercomputers can be used to simulate materials at vastly diverse scales, from the flow of air past an aeroplane’s wing down to the movement of electrons around individual atoms. Different length and time scale domains provide different levels of information, but little is currently known about how these levels of information are connected. Professor Peter Coveney of University College London has been spearheading a long-term programme that aims to connect the scales, relating the behaviour of atoms and molecules to tangible properties at the macroscale.

molecular structure, and processing conditions, and in return it provides information that has largely never been shown before in any kind of modelling, let alone in an experiment.

“By connecting all the scales together into a multi-scale model, we were able to show the process of polymers getting inside the clay layers – how it happens and how long it takes,” says Coveney. “Clay exists naturally as stacked sheets called tactoids. When you add a polymer, it will break up this natural configuration – encapsulating, exfoli- ating or intercalating the stacks. Our simulation showed that the composite then arranges itself in a particular orientation, such that the material properties begin to look very different from what you might predict from a linear combination of the properties of clay and the polymer.”

The paper was considered so important by Advanced Materials that for the first time in its entire history the high impact journal published an extended feature so that the methods behind the work could be fully explained. “The ability to model and simulate the properties of a material in this manner has opened the door for making predictions that could vastly speed up many scientific discovery processes, not just in the field of clay-polymer nanocomposites,” explains Coveney.

Graphene, for example, is a material that has long been touted as a modern wonder material that

will eventually revolutionise numerous fields of research. However, delivering the practical appli- cations of graphene has proven difficult, not least due to the challenges of producing it in large enough quantities. Multiscale modelling could be used to model the industrial production of graphene by exfoliating 2D sheets of graphene from graphite – a process fairly similar to the exfoliation of clay tactoids in the production of clay-polymer nanocomposites.

Coveney and his researchers have made extensive use of Tier-0 PRACE supercomputers, including 40.5 million core hours on JUGENE BlueGene/P at FZJ. “Carrying out multiscale simulations comes under the domain of what we call “heroic computing tasks”, he says. “I personally believe that the future of materials science lies in gaining

“By connecting all the scales together into a multiscale model,

we were able to show the process of polymers getting inside the clay layers – how it happens

and how long it takes”

Figure 1: A snapshot from simulation of a self assembled stack of clay layer and polymer molecules

Figure 2: Illustration of the dynamic process of polymer intercalation between the hexagonal clay layers. Each polymer molecule is a different colour and moves rapidly through the interlayer spacing

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a proper understanding of composites, and this is very much dependent on the high fidelity nature of our models and simulations. Tier-0 supercom- puters such as those provided by PRACE are absolutely essential for running these simulations in feasible time periods, and so the success of our work and any future work that uses our methods leans on the access that researchers have to these valuable resources.” In the short term, the team’s methods have the potential to speed scientific discovery and under- standing. In the long run, materials science will be changed for the better, by eliminating a lot of the trial and error that currently besets the develop- ment of useful materials.

J. Suter, D. Groen, P. V. Coveney, “Chemically specific multiscale modeling of clay-polymer nanocompo- sites reveals intercalation dynamics, tactoid self- assembly and emergent materials properties”, Advanced Materials, 27 (6), 966–984 (2015), DOI: 10.1002/adma.201403361

Figure 3: Coarsegrained molecular dynamics simulation of poly(vinyl) alcohol polymer intercalating between layers of clay

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After the success of the SHAPE Pilot Call in 2014, SHAPE became a permanent pro- gramme of the PRACE Research Infra- structure. The second call for applications was launched in November 2014 and closed in January 2015. Eleven innovative projects from European SMEs were awarded access to HPC resources. The projects come from a diverse range of industrial domains: electromagnetics, aeronautics, agriculture, the nautical and naval industry, renewable energies, welding and heat transfer, and steel casting optimisation. In this newsletter we will highlight five of the eleven award- ed projects – six projects were covered in the PRACE Newsletter #15 (www.prace-ri.eu/IMG/pdf/PRACE-Newsletter-15.pdf).

Algo’Tech Informatique (www.algotech-informati- que.com) is a French company which designs CAD tools and a range of software solutions that are suited to all technical documentation and diagram- related requirements. In the PRACE SHAPE project, Algo’Tech Informatique uses high performance computing to simulate electromagnetic disruption effects in embedded wiring.

All the SMEs working in the field of electricity and automated embedded systems face electroma- gnetic problems that disturb their systems.

PRACE awarded resources to 11 SMEs through the second SHAPE Call

Copyright: Algo´Tech Informatique

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Design Methods (www.designmethods.it) is an Italian engineering firm that provides multidiscipli- nary engineering consulting and design services to industries and design teams supporting them with highly specialised competences in aerodyna- mic design, CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) analysis, software development, CAD (Computer- Aided Design) modelling, numerical optimisation environment and customised design tools development. The company operates in the ae- rospace, automotive and marine fields. In the SHAPE project the company is investigating coupled sail and appendage design methods for multihull based on numerical optimisation. Design Methods will create a numerical optimisation workflow for sail boats' sail plans and append-ages, to be tested on the design of an A-Class catamaran sail.

Ergolines s.r.l. (www.ergolines.it) is an Italian SME active in the design and development of ad- vanced technologies for process control in steel continuous casting. The company was established in 1998, and is based in Area Science Park, Trieste.

The problems are not constant; they arise from one to ten times a year. Today the solutions for overcoming them tend to be empirical. Most often they consist of redesigning the cabling, adding shielding, separating signals, etc. With the support of SHAPE Algo’Tech will optimise its numerical solvers used to model electromagnetic effects and develop an interface for an easy integration between the engineer’ desktop PC and HPC centres.

Ergolines is committed to developing cutting- edge technologies for the steelmaking industry. With the production of flawless steel with metallurgical properties they aim to satisfy an ever increasingly quality-oriented market. The main focus of Ergolines is the continuous casting area, where liquid steel becomes a solid mechanical structure. Ergolines has developed a wide range of products specifically designed for production of speciality steels, including Electromagnetic Stirrers (EMS) and special instrumentation designed around the require- ments of a continuous casting facility.

SHAPE will provide Ergolines with the HPC technology and specific expertise needed to achieve an ambitious goal: designing a thoroughly new EMS specifically dedicated to the segment casting of very large blooms. The successive engineering and commercialisation of this new technology is expected to have a crucial impact on company´s growth and competitiveness, while opening key business opportunities at the international level.

Electromagnetic Stirrer (EMS) Copyright: Ergolines

Airflow around vehicles and aircraftsCopyright: Design Methods

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CybeleTech (www.cybeletech.com) is a young French SME that aims to develop the use of numerical technologies in agriculture. The core products of CybeleTech are based on numerical simulations of plant growth through dedicated biophysical models. This new technology can bring added value at different stages of the agriculture and food chain. By using computer simulations in lieu of field trials, the process of breeding a new variety could be shortened by at least two or three years and allow savings of approx-imately 50% of development costs. Thanks to the support of SHAPE CybeleTech will optimise and scale out its optimisation algorithms.

Hydros Innovation (www.hydros.ch/en) is a Swiss engineering & research company founded in 2007 with several patented designs in the field of marine and sailing yacht. Hydros Innovation offers boat development services ranging from the deck plan to the choice of customised technical solutions. Focused on the nautical industry, the scope of this service ranges from yachting to motor boating. With the help of PRACE experts in SHAPE Hydros aims to evaluate the feasibility of automatic optimal hull design on HPC infra- structure and the impact of such a workflow on the day-by-day work of Hydros personnel.

About SHAPESHAPE (SME HPC Adoption Programme in Eu- rope) is a pan-European programme supported by PRACE. For more information, see www.prace-ri.eu/shape

Copyright: CybeleTech

Copyright: Hydros

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PRACE Digest 2015Women in HPC

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The upcoming PRACE Digest on Women in HPC, the result of the ambitious partnership between PRACE and the Women in HPC network initiative (www.womeninhpc.org.uk/home), symbolises the culmination of a year celebrating the contribution women make to HPC and computational science and in making PRACE a world-leading force in HPC-enabled research. This network addresses the gender imbalance in HPC through support, research and initiatives by raising the professional profiles of women in HPC, increasing participation

of women in outreach activities and assessing the influence of equality initiatives on the HPC community.

PRACE has taken an active role in the initiative with the publication of the Women in HPC Magazine (www.prace-ri.eu/womeninhpc), a pre-edition of the upcoming Digest, and sponsored vibrant and well-attended training and BoF sessions at ISC 2015 in Frankfurt.

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The PRACE Digest on Women in HPC will feature more than a dozen scientific articles on projects where women are either Primary Investigators (PI) or vital members of research teams. Some of the projects to be featured include:

• Non-perturbative Renormalisation for Hadron Physics NPR-LQC, led by PI Dr Mariane Brinet from France;

• JOREK_ITER - Non-linear simulations of MHD instabilities and methods of their control in realistic tokamaks plasmas and in ITER, led by Dr Marina Becoulet from France;

• NanoTox - Camouflaging nanoparticles for reduced toxicity through limited aggregation and membrane disruption, led by Dr Paraskevi Gkeka from Greece;

• Global kinetic modelling of space weather with extreme scalability (VLASIATOR), led by Prof Minna Palmroth from Finland;

• Controlling Hydrogen Binding to Corrugated Graphene, led by Dr Valentina Tozzini from Italy;

• Integrating molecular dynamics simulations and NMR-based re-scoring for protein-ligand docking, led by Dr Teresa Carlomagno from Germany;

• Assessment of the Wave Expansion Method for acoustics in engineering problems jointly, led by Prof Gunilla Efraimsson from Sweden;

• ENS4OCEAN-ENSemble-based approach for global OCEAN forecasting, led by Dr Simona Masina from Italy;

• SCAROLES - SCAling strategy in a solid ROcket motor using two-phase reactive Large Eddy Simulation, led by Dr Eleonore Riber from France;

• Computational investigation of flow around intense cephalopod-like motions, led by Dr Asimina Kazakidi from Greece;

• Hybrid RANS/LES model for discontinuous Galerkin finite element numerical code, led by Dr Antonella Abba from Italy;

• Molecular Dynamics simulations of mixed DOPC/DOPE based membrane bilayer, led by Dr Roberta Galeazzi from Italy;

These projects were made possible by HPC resources awarded in the DECI-9, 10, 11 and 12 Calls, and PRACE Project Access Calls 7, 8 and 10.

The publication and release of this Digest is scheduled for November 2015 at SC15.

PRACE SoHPC2015 participants and organizers at the training week in Barcelona

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Twenty handpicked students began an engaging training week at BSC in Barcelona in July 2015, where they had the opportunity to begin a PRACE training course and get to know their fellow SoHPC participants.

Another successful Summer of HPC

This summer, BSC hosted two students under the PRACE SoHPC program. This is their experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhMxi1tUouc

View highlights from the training week in Barcelona. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNba2X1yL3s

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Then it was on to the nine sites across Europe where the participants met Project Mentors, Site Coordinators and fellow students and took part in a wide range of welcome activities.

While at their host institutions participants worked on visualisation projects based on PRACE technical or industrial work, completing them over an eight week period. Projects ranged from medical image segmentation and visualisation to turbulence modelling. Participants presented their work at the end of August.

Check out summerofhpc.prace-ri.eu for updates on the Summer of HPC and the participants'projects. Information on applications for 2016 will be available towards the end of the 2015.

A wide range of booth activities atracted over 300 visitors to the PRACE booth at ISC 2015. These included the PRACE Treasure Hunt, mini presentations and a car racing video game called ParallelRACE.

PRACE organized a half-day workshop on training that focused on presenting the experience of the PRACE Training team. The workshop emphasized the importance of opening a dialogue with the EU HPC ecosystem stakeholders to address the challenges and tackle the skills gap in HPC and Computational Science.

PRACE awarded the best paper submitted to the ISC Research Paper Sessions. This year’s winner was David Rohr from the University of Frankfurt with his paper entitled:

Lattice-CSC: Optimizing & Building an Efficient Supercomputer for Lattice-QCD & to Achieve First Place in Green500.

PRACE at ISC 201513-15 July 2015, Frankfurt, Germany

PRACE booth staff at ISC 2015

PRACE-ISC Award 2015 for the best paper submitted to the ISC Research Paper Sessions

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PRACE Slovak member Computing Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences is organising an exhibition "Extrapolácie 2015" to present the history and current state of HPC and computing in Slovakia to general public.

Exhibition Extrapolácie 2015 at the Slovak Technical Museum

The exhibition will be held from 24 till 25 October 2015 at the Slovak Technical Museum in Košice. The exhibition will include historic computers and components complemented with posters depicting their schematics, descriptions and the inventors. One part of the exhibition will be dedicated to current HPC resources in Slovakia and the coope- ration with PRACE. This section will feature an interactive panel installed within the exhibition featuring game-like HPC applications such as the ParallelRACE and Shooting Stars games developed by PRACE to promote HPC in an entertaining way. An accompanying lecture on the principles of HPC and computer simulations, HPC resources in Slova- kia and other PRACE member countries, as well as information on access to these resources, will be held at the Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice.

RPP-16 machine will be exhibited among other historic computers at the Extrapolácie 2015.

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Historic computer RPP-16

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PRACE Networking Session at ICT 2015 - High Performance

Data Analytics to Conquer Europe!

PRACE is organizing a networking session "High Performance Data Analytics to conquer Europe" at ICT 2015 - Innovate, Connect, Transform to be held 20-22 October 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.

We expect experts from the fields of HPC, data analytics, infrastructures and archiving, repre- sentatives from scientific user communities, government officials, representatives from Euro-pean projects on related topics to join the session and participate in an active discussion about HPC

data analytics after the presentations given by international HPC and Big Data experts.

Join the session and gain a better understanding of the potential as well as the constraints of the current ecosystem to evolve towards High Performance Data Analytics.

For more information visit: www.ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/ict2015-inno-vate-connect-transform-lisbon-20-22-october-2015

Please visit us at the booth #247 and find out about:

• PRACE Project and Preparatory Access• Industrial Access and SME HPC

Adoption Programme (SHAPE)• Mini-presentations highlighting

interesting activities and topics Visitors are invited to try our new car racing game called ParallelRACE, and enter the traditional PRACE Treasure Hunt.

For more information please visit: www.sc15.supercomputing.org

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PRACE at SC1516-19 November 2015, Austin, Texas, USA

Austin, Texas, USA

On 22 April 2016 the traditional Long Night of Science will be held throughout Austria. Our Austrian partner Johannes Kepler University of Linz will open its doors to the general public and among other things, will also present PRACE at their premises in Hagenberg. In the previous year the event was attended by 136.500 Austrians of which around 1.500 visited Hagenberg and learned about HPC and its use for scientific and industrial research and development. This event is tailored mainly for the next generation of scientists therefore presentations are targeted to children between the ages of 4 to 12. To make the presentations entertaining PRACE educational games like Shooting stars and ParallelRACE will be used.

Stay tuned for more information: www.langenachtderforschung.at

PRACE booth at the Long Night of Science in 2014, Copyright: cityfoto.at

PRACE at the Long Night of Science in Austria

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PRACE and local host IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Centre invite you to Prague for the PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference 2016 – PRACEdays16. The motto of the conference "HPC for Innovation: when Science meets Industry" outlines the scope of this high-level event. It has become an important highlight in the calendar of HPC professionals from all over Europe. Don’t forget to include it in your plans. PRACEdays16 will be held from 10 to 12 May 2016.

Prague was chosen for its location in the heart of Europe and convenient access. Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic, situated in the northwest of the country on the Vltava River. Prague is home to about 1.24 million people. Its extensive historic centre has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Prague ranked fifth in the TripAdvisor world list of best destinations in 2014.

Prague, Czech Republic

PRACEdays16 in Prague, Czech Republic

Local organiser IT4Innovations National Super-computing Centre has hosted several PRACE events, such as the Kick-Off Meeting of the PRACE-4IP Project, two seasonal schools and a number of HPC training events. It was founded as one of the research institutes of the VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava. The centre was established mainly thanks to European funding, namely the Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation. It operates the most powerful HPC infrastructure in the Czech Republic. Since its establishment the centre is a member of PRACE.

PRACEdays15 were held in Dublin in May. Check out our YouTube Channel for videos on PRACE-days15: www.youtube.com/user/PRACERI

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With so much calculating power in the PRACE portfolio, numbers about PRACE itself have become increasingly important. This collection of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) highlights PRACE’s impact on HPC-based research, on HPC know-how in Europe, and on European industry engagement in HPC allowing for a deeper analysis and evaluation of PRACE’s achievements. For more details please visit: www.prace-ri.eu/prace-kpi.

PRACE Achievements in Numbers

PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference 2014 - PRACEdays14 in Barcelona, Spain

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PRACE Winter School 2014, Tel Aviv, Israel

Figure 3 - Ratios of

awarded projects with

National (blue), EC (red)

and international (green)

support.

PRACE’S IMPACT ON EVOLVING RESEARCH

Figure 2 - Ratios

of awarded "foreign"

projects (blue) and

resources for awarded

"foreign" projects (red):

and respective trend-lines.

Figure 1 - Number of

projects requested (blue),

above technical treshold

(red) and awarded (green).

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Figure 4 - Scientific

production supported

by PRACE.

PRACE’S IMPACT ON GROWING KNOW-HOW IN EUROPE

Figure 6 - Number of

person-days registered

at PRACE Training days

in 2014.

Figure 5 - Number of

person-days registered

at PRACE Training days

between 2008 and 2014.

PRACE’S IMPACT ON SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

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Figure 9 - Industry

participation in PRACE

allocations.

PRACE’S IMPACT ON ATTRACTING THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR

Figure 8 - Industrial par-

ticipation in PATCs training

days.

Figure 7 - Number of

industrial attendees that

made contact with the

PRACE booth at ISC and

SC.

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Trainees and a lecturer at a PRACE training event

PRACE Training EventsThe new academic year brings with it a new PRACE training program with both PATC Events and PRACE seasonal schools planned to deliver high quality education to European computational scientists.

The planned PATC Training events for September through November 2015 period can be found in the table below.

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Date PATC Event Name

17 - 18 September Advanced Fortran Topics @ LRZ

22 - 24 September Introduction to Fortran Programming @ CSC

23 - 25 September Industrial Workshop on COMSOL and OpenFOAM @ KTH

28 September - 02 October Parallel Programming with MPI and OpenMP and Advanced Parallel Programming @ HLRS

28 September - 02 October Parallel Programming Workshop (Train the Trainer Program) @ HLRS

20 - 22 October Introduction to Parallel Programming @ CSC

26 - 28 October Debugging and Optimization of Scientific Applications@Cineca

28 - 29 October Advanced MPI @ EPCC

PATC Training events from September through November 2015. The list is continuously updated on the PRACE Events website.

Registration table ready for PRACE training participants

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For further details on these events, as well as how to register and for future PATC events, please visit the PRACE Events website. The website is constantly updating with more information on the training events. www.events.prace-ri.eu/category/2

29 - 30 October Data Carpentry @ EPCC at Leeds New

18 - 20 November High Performance Molecular Dynamics@CINECA

23 - 27 November Parallel Programming Workshop @ BSC

The following PRACE seasonal schools are planned for the next academic year:

• PRACE Winter School 2015/2016 – Slovakia• PRACE Spring School 2016 – Ireland• PRACE Autumn School 2016 – Austria

For further details please visit the PRACE Events website as the seasons approach: www.events.prace-ri.eu/category/6

PRACE and DECI Access in 2015

The 11th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals yielded 107 eligible pro-posals of which 18 were awarded a total of almost 513 million core hours. This brings the total awarded projects to 412 and the total awarded core hours to 10.7 thousand million. The 18 awarded projects are led by principal investigators from 7 different European countries. This Call also welcomed scientists and researchers from the U.S. and South Korea as collaborators in several projects. More highlights from the 11th Call can be found at www.prace-ri.eu/call11-results-pr

All information and the abstracts of the projects awarded under the 11th PRACE Call for Proposals can be found here: www.prace-ri.eu/prace-11th-project-call

Learn about perspectives and opportunities of high performance computing in the video »Introduction to supercomputing: Perspectives and opportunities”. To find out about PRACE and DECI Access in 2015 read the article below.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D94FJx9vxFA

The DECI-13 Call was opened on 14 August and project applications are accepted until 21 September 2015. For more information, visit www.prace-ri.eu/deci-13-call

The Call for Proposals for PRACE Preparatory Access is a continuously open call with regular cut-off dates.The 22nd cut-off date was on 7 September 2015. The next cut-off date is:• 1 December 2015 (23rd cut-off) > 11:00 AM CET

For more information: www.prace-ri.eu/prace-preparatory-access

The 12th Call for PRACE Project Access is planned to open in the last week of September 2015. The final announcement will be published here www.prace-ri.eu/call-announcements so stay tuned!

PRACE 11th Call for Proposals connects the international HPC ecosystem

Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources from DECI-13 (Tier-1)

PRACE Preparatory Access

12th Call for PRACE Project Access

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PRACE Women in HPC Magazine 2015 PRACE Annual Report 2014

PRACE Annual Report 2014 and PRACE Women in HPC Magazine 2015

PRACE invites you to check out the latest Annual Report and the Women in HPC Magazine 2015!

The PRACE Annual Report 2014 is already the third issue of a series that is promising to become a yearly highlight of the work of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe.

To download and / or read the PRACE Annual Report 2014, please visit www.prace-ri.eu/ar-2014

PRACE, in collaboration with the Women in HPC initiative, is embracing a year celebrating the con-tribution women make to HPC and computational science. PRACE Women in HPC Magazine 2015

puts the spotlight not just on the scientific advances made by PRACE, but also on the women that contribute to make PRACE a world-leading force in HPC-enabled science and in the move towards Exa-scale computing.

To download and / or read the PRACE Women in HPC Magazine, please visit www.prace-ri.eu/wo- meninhpc

If you would like to order printed copies of PRACE press material, including the PRACE Annual Report 2014 and PRACE Women in HPC Magazine 2015, please visit www.prace-ri.eu/press-materials.

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