| deadline for preliminary proposals: 7 May 2023
The Heads of Research Councils from the G8 countries (G8-HORCs) Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the UK, and the USA (Italy is not participating) have established a new joint funding initiative. It is aimed at supporting excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach. Funding should help researchers cooperate in consortia consisting of partners from at least three of the participating countries. Research topics will be defined separately for each call.
Simulation supported by high performance computing infrastructures has become the third pillar of science, complementary to experimentation and modeling. Major challenges of the 21st century such as climate change, energy, water, environment, or natural disasters can be addressed by high performance numerical and symbolic simulations that are both data and computer intensive. Computing resources required for these simulations, including improved model resolution, model physics, data analysis and visualization, will reach the exascale (1018 operations per second) level by 2020. However, taking full advantage of these re-sources for global scale scientific challenges will rely on application software featuring fun-damentally new algorithms and data structures capable of exploiting the massive parallelism underlying future exascale level computing.
This international program aims at supporting collaborations between experts in research areas related to these global challenges and developers of future exascale platforms, so that they address together the relevant needs of the research community during the early design stages of emerging new computing systems.
Not only will such collaboration bring together global networks of experts on global topics, it will ensure the rapid and efficient application of new tools as they become available. Proposals for multilateral collaborations should therefore define milestones which can be seen as initial steps ultimately leading to the exascale challenge. They are expected to address short-, intermediate-, and long-term goals, corresponding to (approximately) 10 petaflops in 2013, 100 petaflops in 2016 and 1 exaflops in 2019.
The program will support interdisciplinary projects targeting the exploration and development of open source algorithms and data operations that are resilient, sustainable and scalable to exascale for application solutions to socially relevant global scale issues. It is only through the close cooperation of computing specialists with global scale issues specialists, including related humanity and social scientists where appropriate, that future high performance computing systems can successfully be applied to tackle essential challenges for mankind in the 21st century.
Closing date for the submission of "Preliminary Proposals": 7 May 20102
Notification for the submission of "Full proposals": 28 June 20102
Closing date for the submission of for "Full proposals": 25 August 20102
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