Supercomputers are indispensable tools for solving the most challenging and complex scientific and technological problems through simulations. To remain internationally competitive, European scientists and engineers must be provided with leadership-class supercomputer systems. PRACE forms the top level of the European HPC ecosystem. The partnership was established through the close collaboration of the European countries that prepared the legal, financial, and technical basis in a project funded in part by the European Commission. PRACE provides Europe with world-class systems for world-class science and strengthens Europe’s scientific and industrial competitiveness. PRACE will maintain a pan-European HPC service consisting of up to six top of the line leadership systems (Tier-0) well integrated into the European HPC ecosystem. Each system will provide computing power of several Petaflop/s (one quadrillion operations per second) in midterm. On the longer term (2019) Exaflop/s (one quintillion) computing power will be targeted by PRACE. This infrastructure is managed as a single European entity.
Partner
- Austria: JKU - University Linz, Institute for Computer Architecture
- Bulgaria: NCSA - Executive agency "Electronic communication networks and information systems"
- Cyprus: CaSToRC - The Computation-based Science and Research Center Cyprus
- Czech Republic: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava
- Finland: CSC – IT Center for Science
- France: GENCI – Grand Equipement national pour le Calcul Intensif
- Germany: GCS – GAUSS Centre for Supercomputing
- Greece: GRNET – Greek Research and Technology Network
- Ireland: ICHEC - Irish Centre for High-End Computing
- Italy:CINECA - Consorzio Interuniversitario
- The Netherlands: NCF – Netherlands Computing Facilities Foundation
- Poland: PSNC – Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
- Portugal: FCTUC - Faculdade Ciencias e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
- Serbia: IPB - Institute of Physics, Belgrade
- Spain: BSC – Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación
- Sweden: SNIC – Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing
- Switzerland: ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, CSCS – Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
- Turkey: UYBHM - National Center for High Performance Computing (Ulusal Yuksek Basarimli Hesaplama Merkezi)
- UK: EPSRC – Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Financing
The PRACE project receives funding from the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° RI-211528
Head of the project at Cineca
Sanzio Bassini: s.bassini@cineca.it
Contacts
Sanzio Bassini: s.bassini@cineca.it
