PRACE – The European HPC Infrastructure at SC11

Press release
For release: 11/11/2011
PRACE – The European HPC Infrastructure at SC11
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, welcomes SC’11 visitors to the PRACE
activities in Seattle, WA, on November 14–17. Visit us at our booth #5001 (Level 6)!
PRACE Council Chair, Prof. Achim Bachem (FZJ, Germany) will give a
keynote speech entitled “PRACE - a vision for a sustainable European HPC
infrastructure” on Thursday, November 17 at 8.30am–9.15am in room TCC
303/304.
PRACE Council Chair,
Prof. Achim Bachem
On Thursday, November 17 at 12:15pm–1:15pm PRACE organizes a BoF
session entitled “PRACE – The European HPC Infrastructure” in room TCC
301/302. In this BoF, PRACE Project Manager, Dr. Thomas Eickermann
(FZJ, Germany) will give a presentation entitled “Experiences and perspectives
after one year of PRACE Operation”. A PRACE user’s point of view is given by
Ph. D., Research Group Leader Mariano Vázquez (BSC, Spain) in a
presentation entitled: “High Performance Computational Biomechanics and
PRACE: The perfect marriage.”
The BoF includes information on PRACE’s Tier-0 and Tier-1 services, and
outstanding research results achieved with PRACE resources. This will be an excellent opportunity to
learn how to apply for resources and application support. PRACE representatives will be on hand to
chat about everything PRACE, and answer any questions you may have.
PRACE also organizes a treasure hunt at the SC’11 PRACE booth (#5001). Don’t miss the chance to
win a great prize! PRACE is also presented at PRACE partners’ booths.
More information: www.prace-ri.eu
About PRACE: The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an international nonprofit association with its seat in Brussels. The PRACE Research Infrastructure (RI) provides a
persistent world-class High Performance Computing (HPC) service for scientists and researchers from
academia and industry. The PRACE leadership systems form the apex of the performance pyramid
and are well integrated into the European HPC ecosystem. PRACE receives funding from the EU's
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements n° RI-261557 and n° RI283493. More than 70 projects have been granted resources on the first PRACE systems: the IBM
Blue Gene/P at Germany’s Gauss Center (GCS) for Supercomputing in Juelich, the Bull Bullx system
at France's Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI) in Bruyères-le-Châtel, and the
CRAY XE6 system at Germany’s Gauss Center for Supercomputing in Stuttgart.
www.prace-ri.eu