The 5th edition of Call Advanced Computing Projects has opened
FCT has opened applications for the 5th edition of Call Advanced Computing Projects (CPCA). This Call aims to make computing resources available to national scientific innovation projects, promoting research in areas of great impact and relevance and launched by FCCN, FCT’s digital services. To support applicants, a first online clarification session will be held on September 24 at 12:00. Those interested can register via the link: Clarification session via Colibri-Zoom.
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 “expressways”, is aimed at projects that have been previously evaluated on Calls . More details and criteria on the “fast track” and “full track” can be found at Notice of the Call do Call.
This edition of the CPCA will give 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. These supercomputers, both funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), 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.
Call will make more than 560 million CPU core.hours available. Applications will be accepted in all scientific areas using High Performance Computing (HPC), Computing for Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Scientific Cloud Computing.
All researchers from national, public or private institutions can submit applications to access computing resources in different types of access: A0 – Experimental access – aimed at users with no previous experience or for small-scale projects, for up to 6 months; A1 – Development access – for medium-scale projects with more complex computing needs, for up to 12 months; A2 – Regular access – for large-scale projects, for experienced users in HPC, AI or Cloud, for 12 months; A3 – Larger access – for large-scale projects, with high consumption of computing resources and requiring infrastructures such as Deucalion or MareNostrum 5, for 12 months.
For more information, we suggest visiting the information available on the FCT website and consulting the openCalls page.
Applications must be submitted on the myFCT Platform. The results will be published after FCT approval, following the close of each application period.
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