Overview of the First Year of HPCE3 Project Activities

As you already know from previous editions of our newsletter, the HPC-Europa3 (or HPCE3) project is based on a programme of visits, in the form of traditional transnational access, with researchers visiting high performance computing (HPC) centres and/or scientific hosts. The visitors are funded for travel, accommodation and subsistence, and provided with an amount of computing time suitable for their approved project.

The 1st of May this year marked the first anniversary of the HPCE3 project, and in the year since the project started in May 2017, HPCE3 has already launched four calls for applications.

Reminder re applying to HPCE3

PDC has committed to hosting about 40 visitors from all over the world, with priority being given to visitors from the Baltic countries (to tighten the collaboration between Sweden and the Baltic countries, as well as promoting the use of HPC in the Baltic countries). HPCE3 calls for applications are always open, however there are four cut-offs per year. Currently HPCE3 is accepting applications for the fifth cut-off that will end on the 13th of September 2018.

During the first three of those four calls (The evaluation of the fourth call is on-going at the time of writing.) HPCE3 received 70+23+70 = 163 applications, of which 56+20+47 = 123 have been accepted for visits to one of the nine partner countries. Of the 123 applications that have been accepted, 14 have been applications for researchers to visit PDC and use computing time on Beskow and Tegner, while having a collaborative host researcher at KTH, Stockholm University or Uppsala University. In this first year alone, PDC has already hosted 35% of the visitors that it committed to hosting during the four years of the HPCE3 project.

The following table shows details about the researchers who have visited PDC so far – including the visitor’s home country and university, their research discipline, the software they have used, and the university or company in Sweden with which they were collaborating.