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Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources from DECI-17 (Tier-1) and EUDAT services and resources for data management.

The PRACE DECI programme provides cross-national access to European Tier-1 HPC resources (national systems). Access will be awarded for a period of 12 months, beginning 1 June 2021.

Resources are available on a number of architectures. Please see the PRACE call page for more information: https://prace-ri.eu/call/call-for-proposals-for-deci-17/

We are pleased to announce that Professor Paolo Bientinesi has been appointed as the new Director for High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N), as professor Bo Kågström steps down.

Read the full story:

In English, https://www.umu.se/en/news/new-director-to-lead-hpc2n_9740948/

In Swedish, https://www.umu.se/nyheter/ny-forestandare-for-hpc2n_9740948/

The Large Fall 2020 calls are open.

Please note that there are two calls, one call for Large compute and one call for Large storage.

Large compute call:
Large compute call at the SNIC website: https://snic.se/allocations/compute/large-allocations/
Large compute call in SUPR: https://supr.snic.se/round/fall2020largecompute/

In memoriam,

Sadly, our dear friend and for many years our colleague Sven Öberg recently passed away.

PRACE systems open for Covid-19 research

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is welcoming project proposals requesting computing resources to contribute to the mitigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This call for proposals will follow a fast track review process to provide swift feedback to the applicants.

This call is open until further notice. Applications are evaluated within one week and start as soon as possible if awarded.

The Large spring 2020 calls for large allocations are open

DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 22 APRIL DUE TO COVID-19!

Please note that there are two calls, one call for Large compute and one call for Large storage.

Large compute call:
Call for compute at the SNIC website: https://snic.se/allocations/compute/large-allocations/

Workshop: NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute on Multiple Data Types

The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) and Luleå University of Technology invite you to attend a hands-on deep learning workshop. The workshop is for developers, academic students, staff, and researchers.

NVIDIA DLI offers hands-on training for developers, data scientists, and researchers looking to solve challenging problems with deep learning and accelerated computing.

Price: free

SEMINAR BY PHILIPP SCHLATTER: "SNIC AND SNAC: HANDLING OF LARGE-SCALE COMPUTER TIME ALLOCATIONS IN SWEDEN"
 

Time: 1 October 2019, 13:00-15:00

Location: MC323, MIT Huset, Umeå University

The Large Fall 2019 call for large allocations is open

Please note that the requirements for the project description has been updated as of the Spring 2019 call. The updated requirements can be viewed both in SUPR and at the SNIC website: https://snic.se/allocations/compute/large-allocations/