The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), through its unit FCCN, opens applications for the 3rd edition of Computing Projects Calls Advanced on October 25th.
This call aims to consolidate and strengthen the national technological and scientific system through Advanced Computing resources for Research and Innovation in collaboration with four operational centers - Minho Advanced Computing Centre (MACC), Laboratory of Advanced Computing of the University of Coimbra (LCA-UC), High Performance Computing of the University of Évora (HPC-UÉ) and National Infrastructure for Distributed Computing (INCD).
The competition is for 36 million CPU core.hours or vCPU.hours on platforms of the National Network for Advanced Computing (RNCA). Applications will be accepted in all scientific areas using High Performance Computing (HPC) and/or scientific Cloud or Virtual Research Environments (VRE) in three different types:
- Experimental Access (A0),
- Preparatory Access or Development (A1)
- Project or Regular Access (A2).
Each of these typologies has a maximum number of hours of use and project duration.
For Project Access(A2) applications will be open until December 15, 2022 (1pm Lisbon time). The two remaining accesses, A0 and A1, will be available in several submission batches until May 31, 2023 or until the available resources are exhausted.
Computing Projects Calls Advanced seeks to encourage the use of HPC and Cloud Science or VRE computing resources to obtain new knowledge that will enable scientific and technological progress in all areas of knowledge. These resources could be useful for simulations in areas as diverse as climate or molecular modeling, artificial intelligence and the study of complex problems in the creation of new materials or the improvement of industrial production lines. This edition features a new access mode - Virtual Research Environments (VRE) - which aims to respond to the need for collaboration between researchers from one or more organizations through cloud computing.
Previous editions have so far made available more than 70 million CPU core.hours or vCPU.hours on RNCA platforms. There have been more than 30 scientific publications and 60 Master's or Doctoral theses associated with projects approved under these calls.
All the information about the competition - types, deadlines and application process - can be found on the FCT website and on the RNCA website.
- Online information session on the competition, on November 30, 2022, at 11:30 a.m. - CPCA Info Session registration - National Network for Advanced Computing.
