PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in

Supercomputers are indispensable tools for solving the most challenging and complex scientific and technological problems through simulations. To remain internationally competitive, European scientists and engineers must be provided with leadership-class supercomputer systems. PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe will create a persistent pan-European high performance computing (HPC) service and infrastructure. This infrastructure will be managed as a single European entity. European scientists and technologists will be provided world-class leadership supercomputers with capabilities equal to or better than those available in the USA and Japan. The service will comprise three to five superior HPC centers strengthened by regional and national supercomputing centers working in tight collaboration through grid technologies. In other words, the partnership will become a unique entity of the pan-European HPC ecosystem.