PRACE World-Class Computational Facilities Ready for Polish Scientific Community
Mirosław Kupczyk, Norbert Meyer · Computational Methods in Science and Technology · 2010
The article presents the current state-of-the-art of the European HPC ecosystem design and implementation.It covers the benefits for all ecosystem stakeholders: scientific end-users, operational staff, architecture vendors, owners of the computational facilities.The PRACE -Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe initiative has started the preparation of the background towards the legal form of the related activities.It benefits in the creation of the PRACE non-profit association AISBL, registered in Brussels.During the implementation phase of PRACE, the scientific community has been given free and transparent access to the world-class supercomputing systems in Europe.Polish scientists and researchers may apply for the computational cycles.