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Dear CINECA Users, <br>
The DEISA Consortium has issued the fifth DEISA Extreme Computing
Initiative(DECI) call for proposals. <br>
The deadline of this call is on <b>4 May 2009</b>. <br>
DECI is a scheme through which European computational scientists can
apply for single-project access to world-leading computational
resources in the European HPC infrastructure, operated by DEISA, for a
period of up to 12 months. <br>
DECI aims to enable European researchers to obtain access to the most
powerful national computing resources in Europe, regardless of their
country of origin or work and to enhance DEISA's impact on European
science and technology at the highest level. <br>
<br>
Through an open, competitive call, a number of capability computing
projects will be selected on the basis of innovation and scientific
excellence. These projects must deal with complex, demanding,
innovative simulations that would not be possible without the DEISA
infrastructure, and which would benefit from the exceptional resources
of the Consortium. In addition to offering access to computing
resources, DEISA offers applications-enabling assistance from experts
at the leading European HPC centres to enable projects to be run on the
most appropriate platforms in the DEISA consortium. <br>
<br>
Projects supported by DECI will be chosen on the basis of innovation
potential, scientific excellence and relevance criteria. Priority will
be given to proposals that promote collaborative research, either at a
cross- national or cross-disciplinary level. Further, proposals from
principle investigators (PIs) that have yet to benefit from DECI
compute and applications enabling resources may be given preference. <br>
Proposals selected under this call will be given access to the
infrastructure for applications enabling from 1 October 2009 and for
production runs from 1 November 2009 to 30 September 2010. <br>
<br>
In case you intend to submit a proposal and need further assistance,
please do not hesitate to contact us (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:g.erbacci@cineca.it">g.erbacci@cineca.it</a>)
or
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:deisa-support@list.cineca.it">deisa-support@list.cineca.it</a>).
We will provide you with further
instructions on how to proceed and
will assist you in preparing your proposal. Further information
regarding the application profiles supported by DECI and on how to
proceed is available at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.deisa.eu/science/deci/deci-call-for-proposals2009">http://www.deisa.eu/science/deci/deci-call-for-proposals2009</a><br>
<br>
Best regards, <br>
<br>
Giovanni Erbacci <br>
(CINECA DECI Contact Person - ATASKF representative) <br>
<br>
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