Area Director
National Network for Advanced Computing
RNCA aims to make advanced computing services available to the research, technology, innovation and industry communities.
The National Network for Advanced Computing seeks to aggregate national advanced computing resources, promoting cooperation between the various centres involved and developing national and international partnerships with other entities.
Who is it intended for?
Interested parties should apply for RNCA computing resources through the calls published on the FCT website. For questions about access or direct contracting of advanced computing services, contact rnca@fccn.pt. You can apply to RNCA:
- Higher education institutions, their institutes and R&D (Research and Development) units;
- State or international laboratories based in Portugal;
- Private non-profit institutions whose main purpose is to carry out R&D activities;
- Other public and private non-profit institutions that carry out or participate in scientific research activities;
- Undertakings of any kind and in any legal form
Technical characteristics
The RNCA was created in 2018 by the INCoDe.2030 digital skills initiative, through Council of Ministers resolution 26/2018.
Partnerships and external links:
- BSC - Barcelona Supercomputing center
- RES - Spanish Supercomputing Network
- PRAEC - The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe
- EuroHPC - The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
- TACC - Texas advanced computing center
Members
The RNCA has the following operational centers:
- DEUCALION Supercomputer - Guimarães
- LCA - Laboratory for Advanced Computing of the University of Coimbra
- HPC-UE - High Performance Computing at the University of Évora
- INCD - National Distributed Computing Infrastructure
And a set of competence and visualisation centres to support Advanced Computing users in accessing HPC, HTC and Cloud resources in Portugal:
- VisLab - Deucalion
- CCVCA.UTAD - University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
- CCVCA.UP - University of Porto
- CCVCA.UA - University of Aveiro
- 3CA-UBI - University of Beira Interior
- CCVCA.UL - University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico
- CCV.UALG - University of Algarve
Terms of Use
For access to resources consult the RNCA Internal Regulations and Advanced Computing Projects Regulations.
Advanced Computing Project Competitions published online.
The National Network for Advanced Computing is composed of 4 operational centers and a set of competence centers.
