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08 April 2020
EOSC DIH: Open Call for new pilots
The European Open Science Cloud Digital Innovation Hub (EOSC DIH) is launching an Open Call for new business pilots from any sector. DEADLINE: 3 May 2020 (17:00 CEST)
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01 April 2020
LINCOLN: Improving maritime operations with customised ‘smart’ vessels
Innovative technologies, such as the Internet of Things, have been exploited across a range of industries but remain underutilised by the maritime sector. LINCOLN combined smart technologies with ‘lean fact-based design’ to create new specialised maritime vessels.
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25 March 2020
PRACE support to mitigate impact of COVID-19 pandemic
PRACE is welcoming project proposals requesting computing resources to contribute to the mitigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This call for proposals will follow a fast track review process to provide swift feedback to the applicants. This call is open until further notice. Applications are evaluated within one week and start as soon as possible if awarded.
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25 March 2020
The Annual HPC Report 2019-2020 is available
The 2019-2020 Cineca HPC report is available for download.
This 7th edition continues our commitment to offer data and information about our effort and impact in High Performance Computing on the scientific community and to share with all our stakeholders the update on the HPC infrastructure, the progress of projects and collaborations and future trends for the next year.
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04 March 2020
21st PRACE Call for Project Access: Now Open
The 21st Call for Proposal for PRACE Project Access is now open until 28/04/2020 (10:00 Brussells Time). It is now possible to submit a proposal for PRACE under the defined guidelines, and apply for one of the supercomputers of the affiliated european HPC centers, including our future GPU Cluster. Proposals can be based on a 12-months or a 24/36-months schedule, for Multi-year Projects.
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03 March 2020
PRACE-ICEI Calls for Proposals
The PRACE-ICEI calls for proposals are for researchers from academia and research institutes in need of scalable computing resources, interactive computing services, Virtual Machine services and data storage to carry on their research. The resources are from the Fenix Research Infrastructure, funded by the European ICEI project. DEADLINE: 31 March 2020
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24 February 2020
Cineca HPC department: Job positions open
4 new job positions (12 months) have opened for working at HPC Department.
The candidates wil be selected for activities of high level support and application development concernig HPC (High Performance Computing) and HPDA (High Performance Data Analytics). Place of employment is Casalecchio di Reno BO. Submission Deadline: 16th March 2020
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17 February 2020
OSM: 16-21 February 2020 - San Diego, USA
The Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) is the flagship conference for the ocean sciences and the larger ocean-connected community. Cineca is present at OSM with the poster "The Forecasting Model of the Environmental Dynamics of the Northern Adriatic Sea. Structure and Preliminary Results"
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06 February 2020
Want to spend the summer working abroad at a European HPC Center?
Summer of HPC is a PRACE programme that offers summer placements at HPC centres across Europe. Up to 24 top applicants from across Europe will be selected to participate. They will spend two months working on projects related to PRACE technical or industrial work to produce a visualisation or video. The programme will run from June 30th, to August 31th.
Applications are open. Deadline 28 February
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04 February 2020
Job Vacancy at PRACE aisbl – Operations Director
PRACE is established as an international not-for-profit association (aisbl) with its seat in Brussels. It has 26 member countries whose representative organisations create a pan-European supercomputing infrastructure, providing access to computing and data management resources and services for large-scale scientific and engineering applications at the highest performance level.
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22 January 2020
HPC-Europa3: 11th call for visitors open!
HPC-Europa is an EC-funded programme, coordinated by Cineca, which allows researchers to carry out short "transnational access" visits.
The 11th call for visitors is now open. Deadline: 20th February 2020 (23:59 CET).
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21 January 2020
Marconi100: the new accelerated GPU cluster
A new accelerated HPC system will be installed at Cineca in February.
This system, acquired by Cineca within the PPI4HPC European initiative, opens the way to the pre-exascale Leonardo supercomputer expected to be installed in 2021.
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