1st edition of Call of Advanced Computing Projects

FCT, through its National Scientific Computing Unit (FCCN), announces the opening of the 1st edition of the Call for Advanced Computing Projects , whose applications for the first batch of proposals open on August 14th and will run until 12:00 pm on September 14th.

This is the first Call to provide computing resources with around 27 million core hours on national platforms included in the National Advanced Computing Network (RNCA). THE Call aims to promote the presentation of Advanced Computing Projects in all areas, which will be technologically supported via RNCA, through its advanced computing resources.

The RNCA currently incorporates 4 operational centers with their respective platforms that make up the present Call :

• Bob, operated by MAAC — Minho Advanced Computing Center ( https://macc.fccn.pt );
• Navigator, operated by LCA-UC – Advanced Computing Laboratory of the University of Coimbra ( www.uc.pt/lca );
• Oblivion, operated by HPC-UE – High Performance Computing at the University of Évora ( https://www.oblivion.uevora.pt );
• Cirrus-A and Stratus, operated by INCD – National Distributed Computing Infrastructure ( www.incd.pt );

 Two access modalities will be available: A1 – Preparatory Access, recommended for all scientific and innovation projects without previous experience in HPC or HTC and/or without a history of use of RNCA's computing resources, with a limit of 50,000 core.hours or vCPU_core.hours; and A2 – Project Access, which is intended for the use of HPC, HTC or Cloud Computing resources, for projects with a size greater than 50,000 core.hours or vCPU.hours up to a maximum limit of 3,000,000 core.hours or vCPU.hours.

This Call It is part of the National Digital Skills Initiative e.2030 Portugal INCoDe.2030 and is intended, individually or in co-promotion, for higher education institutions and their R&D (Research and Development) institutes and units; to State or international laboratories based in Portugal; Private non-profit institutions whose main objective is R&D activities; to other public and private, non-profit institutions that develop or participate in scientific research activities and to companies of any nature and under any legal form.

More information on the Call for Advanced Computing Projects page.

Image credits:

1 – Bob – FCT – FCCN

2 – Navigator – https://images.app.goo.gl/2BKN18PGWNpHp9r66

3 – Oblivion – https://images.app.goo.gl/hYMZnc92K2wxEj6s8

4 – INCD – https://images.app.goo.gl/bm2zb4TWsoh843ED9 or https://incd.pt/?p=about