As a leading high performance computing centre in Europe with a strong focus on computational science, the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) at Research Centre Jülich, Germany, dedicates itself to establishing and fostering collaborative relationships with scientific user groups from Europe and beyond that currently lack adequate computing resources to efficiently pursue their excellent, but demanding research projects. As an integral part of this initiative, NIC offers eligible researchers free access to its supercomputers - which are among the most powerful worldwide - on the same terms as those for researchers from Germany. Resources in the range of 4,000 Teraflop-hours per year have been reserved, corresponding to about 600,000 processor-hours on Jülich's current general-purpose platform, the IBM p690 cluster JUMP.

Access to Jülichs IBM Blue Gene/L leadership-class system JUBL may be granted in well-justified cases. While this initiative is mainly targeted at scientists from universities or research laboratories in the new EU member states or candidate countries, researchers from outside these states are equally invited to submit project proposals. All projects will undergo a quality-oriented peer review process and, after a positive evaluation, will be granted an appropriate amount of computing time on JUMP or JUBL. There are no further administrative prerequisites.

Prospective users should follow the regular application procedure and submit their proposals electronically according to the rules set out in

http://www.fz-juelich.de/nic/Rechenzeit/Rechenzeit-e.html

Proposals in response to this initiative are not subject to the deadlines for regular proposals submitted by German researchers.

Please direct questions and remarks to Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert, Director of NIC or to Dr. Manfred Kremer, Scientific Secretary of NIC.

Flyer about this initiative: PDF