Dear HPC users of LRZ, PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) is a Research Infrastructure that allows researchers from across Europe to apply for time on high-performance computers from a series of hosting nations via a central peer review process. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PRACE Preparatory Access Call for Tier-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Preparatory access is intended for testing and developing codes in order to prepare applications for PRACE Tier-0 project access. In particular, we would like to draw your attention to the Preparatory Access Type C which includes code development with support from PRACE experts. Further information are given on the PRACE web page http://www.prace-ri.eu/Call-Announcements The Preparatory Access Call is a rolling call, researchers can apply for access all year. There are no closing dates, proposals will be reviewed every third month. The next cutoff date is September 1st, 2014. LRZ invites all interested scientists, whose projects fit the criteria of the PRACE call to submit their projects. The criteria for the PRACE calls as well as complete information on the PRACE machines, how to apply and on the PRACE peer review process can be found at http://www.prace-ri.eu/ If you need some extra information please feel free to contact PRACE directly via peer-review@prace-ri.eu or weinberg@lrz.de Kind regards, Volker Weinberg -- Dr. Volker Weinberg Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften - High Performance Computing Group - email: weinberg@lrz.de address: Boltzmannstr. 1 - D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen room: E.1.016 phone: +49 (89) 35831-8863