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PRACE 10th Call for proposals now open - closing 22 Oct

(includes multi-year and programmatic access)

Published Sep 11, 2014

Important dates

Opening date 10 September 2014
Closing date 22 October 2014, 12:00 (noon) CEST
Response of applicants to reviews 15– 21 January 2015
Anticipated allocation decisions last week of February 2015
Allocation start date of awarded proposals 10 March 2015
Allocation end date of award 9 March 2016
Type of access
  • project access
  • multi-year project access
  • programmatic access

PRACE HPC systems available

  • “Curie” – Bull Bullx cluster (GENCI@CEA, France)
  • “Fermi” – IBM Blue Gene/Q (CINECA, Italy)
  • “Hornet” – Cray XC30 (GCS@HLRS, Germany)
  • “MareNostrum” – IBM System X iDataplex (BSC, Spain)
  • “SuperMUC” – IBM System X iDataplex (GCS@LRZ, Germany)


The mission of PRACE is to enable high impact scientific discovery and engineering research and development across all disciplines to enhance European competitiveness for the benefit of society. PRACE seeks to realize this mission by offering world class computing and data management resources and services through a peer review process.

Scientists and researchers from around the world can apply for access to PRACE resources.

Industrial users can apply if they have their head offices or substantial R&D activity in Europe.

Project Access

Proposals can be based on a 12-month schedule, or, for multi-year projects, on a 24- or 36-month schedule. The allocation of awarded resources is made for 1 year at a time with provisional allocations awarded for the 2nd and 3rd years.

Additionally, the call

  • includes a pilot test case for programmatic access for 12-months allocations schedule only, and
  • reserves 0.5% of the total resources available for this call for Centres of Excellence (CoE) as selected by the EC under the E-INFRA-5-2015 call for proposals.


The PRACE Access Committee, composed of leading European scientists and engineers, ranks the project proposals that will be awarded access to PRACE resources.

For more information and application forms see www.prace-ri.eu/prace-project-access/ .

If you need extra information please either contact PRACE directly via peer-review@prace-ri.eu  or contact the PRACE SNIC coordinator, Dr. Lilit Axner, at PDC.