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2014 INCITE Call for Proposals

May 23rd, 2013

CSCS would like to make the User Community aware that the call for proposals for the U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE program 2014 is now open.

The INCITE program targets large-scale, computationally intensive projects that would not be possible or productive without petascale computing. Consequently applicants for this program must present evidence that their proposed production simulations can make effective use of a significant fraction of the machine for which resources are being requested.

INCITE is currently soliciting proposals of research for awards of time on the 27-petaflops Cray XK7 “Titan” and the 10-petaflops IBM Blue Gene/Q “Mira” beginning calendar year 2014.

Details of the call for proposals are available  here »

Potential applicants should visit the FAQ page » for the INCITE call.

In particular applicants should pay attention to these questions

4. Who is eligible to participate in INCITE?

6. How are INCITE projects chosen?

12. What constitutes a “computationally intensive” research project?

13. Can I meet the computationally intensive criterion by loosely coupling my jobs?

17. Are foreign researchers and teams eligible to apply?

This year potential interested parties can register for a webinar on the proposal process with question and answer session on April 24 and May 15, 2013. Details can be found here »

The closing date for this call is 11:59 p.m. EDT on Friday, June 28, 2013.

 

Ciclo di conferenze scientifiche al CSCS: Professor Guenther Dissertori (video online)

May 13th, 2013

Il 22 Marzo la penultima conferenza scientifica di un ciclo organizzato dal CSCS allo scopo di far conoscere al grande pubblico l’importanza dei supercomputer ed il loro uso nelle diverse discipline scientifiche è stata dedicata alla Fisica delle Particelle.  Il Professor Günther Dissertori dell’ETH Zurigo in una brillante presentazione ha mostrato “Perché senza Grid-Computing non si sarebbe trovato il bosone di Higgs al CERN”. Il Professor Dissertori, altoatesino, ha studiato Fisica all’Università di Innsbruck in Austria, ha poi continuato i suoi studi conseguendo il Dottorato di Ricerca in Fisica in collaborazione con il CERN. Dopo aver lavorato come membro dello staff scientifico al CERN, nel 2001 è giunto all’ETH Zurigo dove ha iniziato la sua carriera accademica come professore assistente e dal 2007 è professore ordinario di fisica delle particelle.

On March 22nd, the last but one scientific talk in a series of seminars organized by CSCS for a general public to talk about the importance of supercomputers and their use in the various scientific disciplines, was dedicated to Particle Physics. Professor Günther Dissertori from ETH Zurich in a brillant presentation showed why wihout grid-computing it would have not been possible to discover the Higgs boson.  Professor Dissertori comes from Trentino Alto Adige, studied physics at University of Innsbruck in Austria. After that he did a PhD in Physics in a collaboration between Innsbruck and CERN he worked as staff scientist at CERN. In 2001 he started his academic career as assistant professor at ETH Zurich. Since 2007 he is full professor of Particle Physics.