HPCW is a consortium of 6 key-players in High Performance Computing, all around the world, 5 Supercomputing Centers (CINECA, BSC, FZJ, SDSC and BlueFern) plus GENCI, the French national agency in charge of HPC coordination.
The project is coordinated by CINECA and has a duration of 30 months (after a contract amendment that extended the original duration), starting from the 1st of November 2009.
Our aim is to perform an analysis and an assessment of the models used worldwide by the HPC centers and initiatives to manage the requests for allocation of resources coming from researchers and their communities.
In the occasion of the installation of FERMI, the new computing system IBM BG/Q that will be installed at CINECA in May 2012 (with which CINECA becomes a PRACE Tier-0 hosting site, as from the mandate of the Italian Ministry MIUR), CINECA will appoint its new Scientific Committee and will be presenting the HPCWorld Handbook and procedure to the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee and to the Italian and European scientific communities. The event will take place in CINECA, Casalecchio di Reno Bologna, Italy, on the 5th of June 2012
The Handbook was launched at SuperComputing 2011 in Seattle on Monday 14 November!
The Handbook was published and paper copies can be requested sending an email to f.garofalo@cineca.it.
Our work on the methodology is not concluded, we'll continue improving it, so your comments are still welcome!
Please download here the current Nov11 version of the Handbook and provide here your comments.
Updated versions will be posted here as soon as they are realized.
The HPCWorld Memorandum of Understanding is now ready for signature! Please click here!
