Advanced High-level Support Call of LRZ AstroLab (ADVISOR)

Current Call for Proposals

Second Call of the LRZ AstroLab (ADVISOR 2016)

The AstroLab invites current and potential SuperMUC users to apply for its high-level support in optimising and tuning their applications/codes to the current and upcoming HPC systems at LRZ. This call is restricted to the Astro and Plasma physics groups affiliated to German academic and research institutions (other users: please consider the similar PRACE Preparatory Access Type C calls).  The proposed support call projects may request 1 person-month of AstroLab resources and are envisioned to take the form of a long-term computational collaboration with LRZ, ideally leading to joint publications or follow-up projects with external funding resources. The possible work areas for this call is listed in the application form.

The applicants are invited to fill out the application template describing their motivation, type of support requirement, detailed working plan and expected outcomes, and send to astrolab_AT_lists.lrz.de. For any queries please also feel free to contact us beforehand. We also kindly ask you to forward this support call to any interested colleague of yours, since our distribution list is far from being complete.

The application deadline for this call is 31st July 2016.

The applications will be refereed internally and the selected projects will be contacted afterwards to start the work.


Previous Calls

First Call of the LRZ AstroLab (ADVISOR 2015)

Astrophysics being a major scientific research area, LRZ has established the “Astro Application Lab” as a dedicated team to provide advanced high-level support for efficient HPC in science, scalable parallel algorithm design and cooperation to the Astro and Plasma communities.

Among its first activities, the Astro Application Lab invites current and potential SuperMUC users to apply for high level support in optimising and tuning their applications/codes to the current and future versions of SuperMUC. This first call is restricted to the Astro and Plasma physics groups affiliated to German academic and research institutions (other users: please consider the similar Prace PA Type C calls). The proposed support call projects may request up to 3 person-months of Astro Lab resources and are envisioned to take the form of a long-term computational collaboration with LRZ, ideally leading to joint publications or follow-up projects with external funding resources.

The applicants are invited to fill out the form, available at AstroLab Application Form, describing their motivation, type of support requirement, detailed work plan and expected outcomes, and send to astrolab_AT_lists.lrz.de. For any queries please also feel free to contact us beforehand. We also kindly ask you to forward this support call to any interested colleague of yours, since our distribution list is far from being complete.

The application deadline for this call is 31st January 2015.

The applications will be refereed internally and the selected projects will be contacted shortly.