PRACE Research Infrastructure - the top level of the European HPC ecosystem 

The vision of PRACE is to enable and support European global leadership in public and private research and development.

PRACE seeks to realize this vision by contributing to the advancement of European competitiveness in industry and research through provisioning of world leading persistent computing and data management resources and services.

The PRACE RI is a pan-European infrastructure seated in Brussels and established as an international non-profit association of European government representative organizations responsible for High-Performance Computing resources and services for public research.

Named ‘Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe AISBL’, it currently has 21 members, representing Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK.

These partners are creating a pan-European world class computing and data management infrastructure, providing access to resources at the highest performance level including sophisticated services for scientific simulations in all fields of science and engineering.

The PRACE RI is open to all European researchers and their collaborators for research with potential for high European and international impact. Applications for access are subject to peer review overseen by the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee comprised of leading European researchers.

The PRACE leadership systems form the apex of resources for large-scale computing and data management for scientific discovery and engineering research and development for the benefit of Europe and are well integrated into the European HPC ecosystem. PRACE is funded by member governments through their representative organizations and EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° RI-261557. The first PRACE computer systems and their operations are funded by the governments of the representative organizations hosting the systems.