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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call for proposals for fast track access to HPC resources</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">available in South-East Europe</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The HP-SEE project* is operating a continuous call for</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">proposals for fast track access to HPC resources available</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">in South-East Europe, targeted at new user communities.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Researchers from the region are invited to apply for</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">access to run their scientific applications to resources</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">such as HPC Clusters with Intel-based CPUs, IBM POWER6</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CPUs, PowerXCell8i CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, interconnected with</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Gigabit Ethernet or Infiniband. The process of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">applications' evaluation is taking at most 5 working days.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Selected applications will be given access to up to 64 CPU</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">cores or 4x480 GPUs cores per run and will benefit from</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the technical support of HP-SEE experts for a period of up</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">to 3 months.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Researchers in Computational Chemistry and Life Sciences</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">are in particular encouraged to apply.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Detailed information on eligibility, amount and type of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">offered resources and the process is available at:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.hp-see.eu/hp-see-fast-track" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.hp-see.eu/hp-see-fast-track</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* HP-SEE, High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">South East Europe’s Research Communities works across</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">strategic lines of action to link existing and upcoming</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">HPC facilities in South East Europe in a common</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">infrastructure, and to provide operational solutions for</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">it, as well as HPC user and applications support. The</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">initiative opens the South East European HPC</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">infrastructure to a wide range of new user communities,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">including those of less-resourced countries, fostering</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">collaboration and providing advanced capabilities to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">researchers, with an emphasis on strategic groups in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">computational physics, computational chemistry and life</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">sciences. HP-SEE receives EC support through FP7 under</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the "Research Infrastructures" action.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">______________________________</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">______________________________</span><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br clear="all"></font><div>Danica Stojiljkovic<br><br>--------------------------<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:danica@ipb.ac.rs" target="_blank">danica@ipb.ac.rs</a><br>
Web: <a href="http://scl.ipb.ac.rs/" target="_blank">http://scl.ipb.ac.rs/</a><br><br>Phone: +381 11 3713 177 <br>Fax: +381 11 3162190 <br><br>Scientific Computing Laboratory<br>Institute of Physics Belgrade</div>
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