More information and applications can be found on the competition page: FCT website
Project typologies
Experimental Access (A0)
Preparatory or Development Access (A1)
Project or Regular Access (A2)
Each of these typologies has a maximum number of hours of use and project duration.
The competition is for millions of CPU core.hours or vCPU.hours on platforms of the National Network for Advanced Computing (RNCA). Applications will be accepted in all scientific areas using High Performance Computing (HPC) and/or scientific Cloud or Virtual Research Environments (VRE).
This call aims to consolidate and strengthen the national technological and scientific system through Advanced Computing resources for Research and Innovation in collaboration with four operational centers - Minho Advanced Computing Centre (MACC), Laboratory of Advanced Computing of the University of Coimbra (LCA-UC), High Performance Computing of the University of Évora (HPC-UÉ) and National Infrastructure for Distributed Computing (INCD).
About the competition
Computing Projects Calls Advanced seeks to encourage the use of HPC and Cloud Science or VRE computing resources to obtain new knowledge that will enable scientific and technological progress in all areas of knowledge. These resources could be useful for simulations in areas as diverse as climate or molecular modeling, artificial intelligence and the study of complex problems in the creation of new materials or the improvement of industrial production lines. This edition features a new access mode - Virtual Research Environments (VRE) - which aims to respond to the need for collaboration between researchers from one or more organizations through cloud computing.