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<p class="MsoNormal">LRZ, one of the European Tier-0 supercomputing centres, hosts the Top500 HPC systems SuperMUC Phase 1 and Phase 2. Our HPC system SuperMUC with a combined peak performance 6.8 PFlops/s has been in successful operation for a few years now
and will be replaced by a follow up system with the newest generation of hardware in the coming years. It is always a major challenge to fully exploit such huge computational resources. Our engagement to help the computational science communities with substantial
high-level technical efforts to leverage such massively parallel resources is inevitable.
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<p class="MsoNormal">To strengthen this engagement LRZ has recently taken an initiative to focus on domain specific community-oriented support and research infrastructure. These entities, known as “Application Labs”, will play a leading role in supporting the
scientific communities to bring the most out of their applications exploiting the LRZ HPC facilities.
<b>Astrophysics</b> being a major computation dominated scientific research area, LRZ has established the “<b>AstroLab</b>” as a dedicated team to provide advanced high-level support for efficient HPC in utilisation, scalable parallel algorithm design and cooperation
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>More info about AstroLab at:</b> <a href="http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/labs/astrolab/">
www.lrz.de/services/compute/labs/astrolab/</a> .<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The AstroLab invites current and potential SuperMUC users to apply for its high-level support in optimising and tuning their applications/codes for the current and upcoming HPC systems at LRZ. This call is restricted to the Astro and Plasma
physics groups affiliated to German academic and research institutions (other users: please consider the similar PRACE Preparatory Access Type C calls). The proposed support call projects may request 1 person-month of AstroLab resources and are envisioned
to take the form of a long-term computational collaboration with LRZ, ideally leading to joint publications or follow-up projects with external funding resources. The possible work areas for this call is listed in the application form.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The applicants are invited to fill out the template available in
<a href="http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/labs/astrolab/supportcall/">http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/labs/astrolab/supportcall/</a> describing their motivation, type of support requirement, detailed working plan and expected outcomes, and send to
<a href="mailto:astrolab@lists.lrz.de">astrolab_AT_lists.lrz.de</a>. For any queries please also feel free to contact us beforehand.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The application deadline for this call is 31st July 2016</b>. The applications will be refereed internally and the selected projects will be contacted afterwards to start the work.<o:p></o:p></p>
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