On 17 June 2019, during the Opening Session of ISC High Performance 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany, Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert, PRACE Council Chair, greeted the attendees of the conference in a 5-minutes address, summarising the achievements of PRACE to date, and outlining how PRACE is "In Service [...]

The VECMA project is proud to announce our 1st year Validation, Verification, Uncertainty Quantification (VVUQ) Software Toolkit release, available as of today; this is the first major release of three which are planned over the three years of the VECMA project. The Toolkit release contains various functionalities, including unit and [...]

On 7 June 2019, Europe announced the selection of eight supercomputing hosting sites for 3 precursor to exascale machines that will be in the global top 5, and 5 petascale machines. These systems will complete the apex of the supercomputing pyramid to which PRACE Members are contributing their Tier-0 and [...]

On Monday 3rd June 2019, the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC) welcomed the EuroHPC Infrastructure Advisory Group (INFRAG) to their biannual meeting to discuss user requirements for industry. The PRACE IAC was set up in 2013 to give independent advice to PRACE and has been consulted on various services including [...]

The renewed ARCHIE-WeSt Supercomputer will be launched on November 21st, 2018 at the University of Strathclyde. A new 64-node INTEL Skylake based system with the INTEL Omnipath interconnect and GPFS filesystem was installed during summer 2018 and will provide the ARCHIE-WeSt consortium with state-of-the-art computing facilities for the next five years. While [...]

Space debris around Earth The Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition (GTOC) is an annual worldwide challenge which was organised this year by the European Space Agency (ESA) on a challenging problem on space debris removal. Those participating in the event include top universities as well as leading research agencies in the field [...]

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of ECCOMAS, ECCM – ECFD 2018 will be held in Glasgow, UK on June 11th-15th, 2018. The Congress is hosted by The University of Glasgow and The University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the UK Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering (UKACM). The joint conferences [...]

The University of Strathclyde is to host 29th International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 15-17 May, 2017. The conference will take place in the University's flagship Technology and Innovation Centre. Parallel CFD is the annual conference series dedicated to the discussion of recent developments and applications of parallel computing in [...]