Interesting links

Getting compute time in other centres

• PRACE - Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe has a program to get access to the tier-0 infrastructure in Europe.

• The DOE leadership computing program INCITE also offers compute time to non-US-groups. It is more or less the equivalent of the PRACE tier-0 computing program. The annual deadline for proposals is usually end of June.

Training programs in other centres

• PRACE training programs

• HLRS, Stuttgart (Germany)

• Leibniz RechenZentrum, Garching, near München (Germany), organised together with the Erlangen Computing Centre.

EU initiatives

• PRACE, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

• EGI - European Grid Initiative, the successor of the EGEE - Enabling Grids for E-SciencE program

• HET, HPC in Europe Taskforce, a project within ESFRI, European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures

• The e-IRG, e-Infrastructure Reflection Group

Some grid efforts

• WLCG - World-wide LHC Computing Grid, the compute grid supporting the Large Hedron Collider at Cern

• The XSEDE program in the US which combines a large spectrum of resources across the USA in a single virtual infrastructure

• The Open Science Grid (OSG) is a grid focused on high throughput computing in the US and one of the resource providers in the XSEDE project

Some HPC centres in Europe

• Belgium

  • CÉCI - Consortium des Équipements de Calcul Intensif, the equivalent of the VSC run by the French Community of Belgium

• Danmark: The DeIC - Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation is a virtual organisation just as the VSC in which several universities participate

• Germany:

  • GCS, Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, a collaboration of three German national supercomputer centres

    • JSC, Jülich Supercomputer Centre of the Forschungszentrum Jülich.

    • HLRS, Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart.

    • LRZ, Leibniz Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

  • HLRN, Norddeutscher Verbund für Hoch- und Höchstleistungsrechnen, a German supercomputer center in which 7 Bundesländer ("States") in Northern Germany participate

  • Max Planck Computing and Data Facility, Rechenzentrum Garching of the Max Planck Society and the IPP (Institute for Plasma Physics)

• Finland: CSC.

• France:

  • GENCI, Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif, coordinates the 3 French national supercomputer centres:

    • CCRT/CEA, Centre de Calcul Recherche et Technologie, which also runs the French Tier-0 cluster for the PRACE program.

    • CINES, Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur.

    • IDRIS, Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique.

• Ireland: ICHEC, Irish Centre for High-End Computing.

• Italy: CINECA, a non profit Consortium, made up of 32 Italian universities, The National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - OGS, the CNR (National Research Council), and the Ministry of University and Research.

• Netherlands: SURFsara, the organisation running the Dutch academic supercomputers

• Norway: UNINETT Sigma2 AS manages the national infrastructure for computational science in Norway, and offers services in high performance computing and data storage.

• Spain: BSC, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

• Sweden:

  • SNIC, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing, is a meta-centre that coordinates high-performance and grid computing in 6 Swedish supercomputer centres and that represents Sweden in PRACE

  • PDC Center for High Performance Computing at KTH houses the largest supercomputer of Sweden.

• Switzerland: CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputer Center, an autonomous unit of ETH Zürich

• United Kingdom:

  • Archer, the UK national supercomputer service run by EPCC

  • University of Bristol Advanced Computing Research Centre

  • University of Cambridge High Performance Computing Service

  • Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff

  • EPCC, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre

  • Supercomputing Wales, also a consortium of universities similar to the VSC