Nine research projects awarded access to PRACE Research Infrastructure

Nine research projects, two from Germany, two from Spain and one each from France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK, have been awarded access to the PRACE Research Infrastructure. In total 362.8 Million compute core hours were granted for the JUGENE, IBM BlueGene/P, hosted by the Gauss-Centre for Supercomputing member site in Jülich, Germany, which is the first Petascale HPC system available to researchers through PRACE. 

59 applications requesting a total of 2,874 Million compute core hours were received in this call, which was the first regular call for one year allocation on PRACE resources.

The projects were chosen for their high level of scientific and technical maturity, and demonstrated need for Tier-0 resources. The projects are from the following scientific areas: chemistry and materials, medicine and life sciences, engineering and energy, and fundamental physics. All proposals underwent a peer review process including PRACE technical and scientific assessment.

The following nine projects were granted access to PRACE resources. More information on the projects is available at http://www.prace-project.eu/hpc-access/page-11/.

• Droplet growth by coalescence in turbulent clouds: kinetics, fluctuations, and universality, Jeremie Bec, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
• Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of proton transport in a biological ion channel, Paolo Carloni, German Research School for Simulation Sciences GmbH,  Jülich, Germany
• Entrainment effects in rough-wall boundary layers, Javier Jimenez, Universidad Politecnica Madrid, Spain
• QCD Thermodynanics with Wilson fermions, Sandor Katz, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
• Investigating the effects of quantum nuclear motion in an enzyme that employs hydrogen tunnelling, Dominik Marx, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
• Turbulent entrainment due to a plume impinging on a density interface, Maarten van Reuuwijk,  Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
• Non diffusive transport in ITG plasma turbulence, Edilberto Sánchez, EURATOM-CIEMAT Association, Madrid, Spain
• Predictive full-scale fast ignition with PW plasma amplified laser pulses,  Luis Silva, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
• Large scale high resolution blood flow simulations in realistic vessel geometries, Frederico Toschi, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

The 2nd PRACE regular call for one year allocation is currently open and will close on 11th January, 2011 for projects from all scientific areas. More information can be found at: http://www.prace-project.eu/hpc-access/