FCCN, the digital services of the Foundation for Science and Technology, is launching the 5th Advanced Computing Projects Calls (CPCA), which aims to make computer resources available to national scientific innovation projects, promoting research in areas of great impact and relevance.
In addition to the applications for the A0 and A1 accesses, which run until September 2025, this edition brings new features for the A2 and A3 accesses, with two application phases: a first phase until October 10, 2024 and a second phase in 2025. The first phase, exclusively for the "expressway", is aimed at projects that have been previously evaluated in previous tenders. More details and criteria on the "fast track" and "full track" can be found in the call for tenders.
Applications are accepted in all scientific areas
More than 560 million CPU core.hours are up for grabs and applications will be accepted in all scientific areas usingHigh PerformanceComputing(HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Computing or Scientific Cloud Computing.
This edition of the CPCA provides access to three important high-performance computing platforms: MareNostrum 5, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and Deucalion, a state-of-the-art Portuguese supercomputer, both funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan(PRR) and which allow for greater scalability and performance in various areas of research and innovation. Researchers can also use the HPC and Cloud services of the INCD (National Distributed Computing Infrastructure), ideal for projects with flexible storage and computing needs.
The call is open to all researchers from national institutions, public or private, who want to submit applications for access to computing resources in different types of access:
- A0 - Experimental access: Aimed at users with no previous experience or for small-scale projects of up to 6 months.
- A1 - Development access: For medium-scale projects with more complex computing needs, up to 12 months.
- A2 - Regular access: Large-scale projects, for experienced HPC, AI or Cloud users, for 12 months.
- A3 - Larger access: Large-scale projects, with high consumption of computing resources and requiring infrastructures such as Deucalion or MareNostrum 5, for 12 months.
Online information session
To support applicants, a first online information session will be held on September 24 at 12:00. Interested parties can register via the link: Clarification session via Colibri-Zoom.
For more information , we suggest visiting the information available on the FCT website and consulting the open calls page.
Applications must be submitted on the myFCT Platform. The results will be published after FCT approval, following the close of each submission period.
