Interesting links

Getting compute time in other centres

• EuroHPC (The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking) has a program to get access to the tier-0 infrastructure in Europe. See the EuroHPC Access Calls website.

• 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 Portal

• HLRS, Stuttgart (Germany)

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

EU initiatives

• EuroHPC (The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking)

• 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

• Denmark:

  • 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- undHöchstleistungsrechnen, 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:

  • SURF, is the ICT cooperative of Dutch education and research institutions and runs 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