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DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2007
*** Deadline: June 30, 2007 ***
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The purpose of the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI) is to
enhance the impact of the DEISA research infrastructure on leading
European science and technology.
This initiative consists of the identification, enabling, deploying
and operating “flagship” applications in selected areas of science and
technology. These leading, ground breaking applications must deal with
complex, demanding, innovative simulations that would not be possible
without the DEISA infrastructure, and which would benefit - if
accepted - from the exceptional resources of the Consortium.
The DECI initially focused mainly on "Grand Challenge" applications
that could be migrated and adapted to the DEISA environment with
little or moderate application enabling work. The scope of the
initiative has now been expanded to include medium to long term
support for important complex application enabling. The DEISA
infrastructure is therefore ready to provide more sustained
application enabling support to specific projects and to be involved
more deeply in the design of leading and innovative complex simulations.
Projects supported by DECI will be chosen on the basis of innovation
potential, scientific excellence and relevance criteria. A priority
will be given to proposals that benefit from an excellence label from
more than one partner organisation. Further, proposals from PIs that
have yet to benefit from DECI compute resources will be given preference.
APPLICATION PROFILES
The following applications profiles are particularly suited to the DECI:
- Large, highly scalable parallel applications requiring
exceptional computational resources
- Data intensive applications requiring access to distributed data
repositories
- Workflow Simulations managing simulation chains that access more
than one computing platform
- Distributed applications that need to run synchronously on more
than one platform
As mentioned above, DEISA is ready to provide increased support to the
design and enabling of these applications. In some cases, this support
can entail a medium term commitment of human resources for the
application design and enabling work (i.e. an engineer for several
months).
SUPPORT TO THE INITIATIVE
In order to facilitate the identification and the support and design
of new leading applications adapted to DEISA, the Consortium has
established an "Applications Task Force". This task force is
constituted by a number of experts in high performance and Grid
computing from each of the different DEISA member organizations.
The objective of the Applications Task Force is to carry out a
prospective action with the European scientific community to support
the design of new, leading applications. Scientists willing to benefit
from the DEISA infrastructure should contact the Applications Task
Force in advance to obtain the guidance needed to find the best fit
between their requirements and the distributed supercomputing environment.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The DEISA Consortium is currently calling for proposals for a third
generation of Extreme Computing Initiative applications that will be
supported and/or deployed from November 2007.
The closing date for this third call for proposals is June 30, 2007.
ANSWERING TO THE CALL
The way to proceed to answer to the call is the following:
- Contact the Applications Task Force for support in the
preparation of the proposal (email to ataskf(at)deisa.org).
The DECI proposal template form can be found here:
http://www.deisa.org/files/DECI-proposal-template-2007.doc
- Send a proposal, by June 30, 2007, to the DEISA Executive
Committee (email to execomm(at)deisa.org) and to the Applications
Task Force (email in CC to ataskf(at)deisa.org).
The proposals will first be technically evaluated by the Applications
Task Force, who will determine the technical requirements, the
allocation of computational resources and the human resources required
for the long term application enabling. The scientific evaluation of
the proposals will be done by a number of National Scientific
Evaluation Committees in early September, and they will provide
recommendations to the Consortium on the proposals' scientific importance.
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Local ATASKF Contact: Dr. Boris Orth
John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC)
Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM)
Research Centre Juelich
D-52425 Juelich
Phone: +49-2461-61-2528
Fax: +49-2461-61-6656
Email: sc.zam(at)fz-juelich.de
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