D7.1.1: Applications enabling for capability science

The WP7 "Enabling Petascale Applications: Efficient Use of Tier-0 Systems" in PRACE-1IP is responsible for providing petascaling support for European researchers for PRACE Tier-0 systems. The task 7.1 (Applications enabling for capability science) provides optimization service by organizing calls, by evaluating proposals for optimization projects and by performing the actual optimization work. This is the interim deliverable of Task 7.1. The deliverable reports the calls organized during the first half of PRACE 1IP, and the evaluation processes we have used for reviewing the proposals and assigning work to PRACE partners. We report also some results of a user survey which are related to application enabling; the full results are reported in D7.4.1. In order to ensure that technical work started as early as possible, Task 7.1 organized an internal call at the start of PRACE-1IP. Six optimization projects were chosen with the total of 28 PMs. Most of the projects achieved good progress in their targets, and for the two of the projects the results enable participation in future regular calls for project access. The optimization projects which were selected in the internal call have finished, and the results obtained in the projects are reported here. Also the collaboration done with other WP7 tasks is reported. The user survey conducted by task 7.4 has revealed a need for PRACE optimization service, however, it also indicates that the users could be informed more clearly about the possibilities offered by PRACE. During the first half of PRACE 1IP, task 7.1 has finished two evaluation rounds for type C Preparatory Access proposals to the PRACE RI in which total of 7 projects were accepted and 23 PMs of PRACE work assigned. The third evaluation round is currently under way with 6 proposals requesting a total of 19 PMs. No preparatory access project has finished yet, thus no results are reported in this deliverable; these will be reported in D7.1.2