Expressions of Interest
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- Call for expressions of interest to participate in the production phase of the new MN5 supercomputer
MareNostrum 5 (MN5) is a new European supercomputing platform installed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), in which Portugal has a 5% stake.
FCT is once again inviting potential interested parties from the national Science, Technology, Innovation and Public Administration sectors to submit expressions of interest to access the production phase of this new supercomputer.
Interested parties must complete and submit the form in English by September 9, 2024.
- Call for expressions of interest to contract services for the Creation and Establishment of a Consortium to Promote the Management and Sharing of Research Data at National Level (until September 10, 2024).
As part of the investment RE-C05-i08 - More Digital Science funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), FCT is launching this call for services for the Creation and Establishment of a Consortium to Promote the Management and Sharing of Research Data at National Level.
Proposals must be submitted, in English, no later than 23:59 on the 50th day following the date of publication of this call, to the following email address: compras@fccn.pt, with the reference RI/00138/2024 entered in the subject line of the email.
The deadline shall be counted in accordance with Article 470(3) of the CCP.
- Call for expressions of interest to contract services for the creation of up to ten (10) Research Data Management Centers (until August 12, 2024)
As part of the investment RE-C05-i08 - More Digital Science funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), FCT is launching this call for expressions of interest for the creation of up to ten Research Data Management Centers at national level.
Tenders must be submitted, in English, no later than 23:59 on the 40th day following the date of publication of this call for expressions of interest, to the following email address: compras@fccn.pt, with the reference RI/00139/2024 entered in the "Subject" field of the email.
The deadline is counted in accordance with Article 470(3) of the CCP.
The FCT will be holding an information session, more information is available here.
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- Call for expressions of interest for participation in the pre-production phase of the new MareNostrum 5 supercomputer
MareNostrum 5 (MN5) is a new European supercomputing platform installed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), in which Portugal has a 5% stake.
In this initial phase, FCT is inviting potential interested parties from the national Science, Technology, Innovation and Public Administration sectors to submit expressions of interest in accessing the pre-production phase of this new supercomputer.
Interested parties must complete and submit the form in English by June 27, 2024.
- Call for expressions of interest to participate in the experimental evaluation of the new national supercomputer.
Portugal is about to make available Deucalion, a new supercomputing platform that promises to boost data processing and analysis capacity. Once the physical assembly is complete, the platform will begin testing and tuning to ensure fully functioning and maximum performance of this important resource.
As such, the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) invites potential stakeholders from the national sectors of Science, Technology, Innovation and Public Administration to register interest and availability to work with technical support in the benchmarking tests of the Deucalion supercomputer.
Interested parties should complete and submit the simplified form.
- Call for expressions of interest for reuse Bob supercomputer equipment (until 31 July 2023)
The Bob Supercomputer, was donated to Portugal in 2019 by the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas (Austin), saw 15 of its 20 compute node racks discontinued as of 24 February 2023. However, these are available to be reused by interested entities of the national science and innovation sectors or by companies in innovation processes, so FCT has launched an expression of interest for this purpose.
Interested entities in the reuse of the Bob supercomputer are invited to submit their proposal for expression of interest, through this form, by 31 July 2023.