PRACE-RI infrastructure

The PRACE-RI (Research Infrastructure) is developed with the help of successive European projects, which WCSS actively participates in: PRACE PP, PRACE-1IP, PRACE-2IP, PRACE-3IP, PRACE-4IP, PRACE-5IP and PRACE-6IP. The projects are co-financed by the European Council, from the funds of the 7th Framework Program and of the Horizon 2020 program.

The management of the developed PRACE-RI infrastructure (http://www.prace-ri.eu) has been delegated to PRACE AISBL (fr. Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif) – a non-profit organization established under Belgian law.

The idea behind the activities within the PRACE initiative is to support European science by providing appropriately advanced computing services. The initiative engaged leading research and supercomputing units from 26 European countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom). In Poland, the project partner is PCSS, cooperating with the other four major computing centers: ACK Cyfronet AGH, ICM UW, TASK and WCSS.

The PRACE infrastructure consists of more than ten large HPC machines with performance on the order of PetaFLOPS (the so-called Tier-0) and many smaller national or regional machines (the so-called Tier-1). WCSS provides some of its resources as Tier-1.
The PRACE Initiative results in a number of scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and white-paper open-access publications. The list of publications prepared with the participation of the WCSS staff can be found here.