Seven supercomputing centers in Europe are providing expedited access and priority computing resources to researchers working on problems related to COVID-19. The centers are located in Germany, Finland, France, Ireland, Belgium, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. They will help researchers in fields such as modeling, simulation, data processing, and artificial intelligence to gain faster insights in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

1. 7 PRACE PARTNERS
AGAINST COVID-19
PRACE : PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING IN EUROPE
GAUSS CENTRE FOR SUPERCOMPUTING
GERMANY
GCS, the alliance of Germany’s three national
supercomputing centres, will be helping researchers
working on COVID-19-related research gain expedited
access to computing resources.
CSC – IT CENTER FOR SCIENCE
FINLAND
CSC is participating in the efforts against the COVID-19
pandemic and reserves resources for activities that
support this work.
GRAND ÉQUIPEMENT NATIONAL
DE CALCUL INTENSIF
FRANCE
GENCI provides French academic and industrial
researchers with its computing and storage resources
for their work in modelling / simulation, data
processing, and the use of artificial intelligence.
IRISH CENTRE FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE
COMPUTING
IRELAND
ICHEC will expedite access for all scientific and
academic research relating to Covid-19 on the national
high-performance computer (HPC), “KAY”.
VLAAMS SUPERCOMPUTER CENTRUM
BELGIUM
The last weeks a number of research groups are
actively working to fight the COVID-19 epidemic in
different ways. Also, an important number of
companies have groundbreaking ideas on this topic.
IT4INNOVATIONS NATIONAL
SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER
CZECH REPUBLIC
The IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at
VSB – Technical University of Ostrava offers its users
from academic institutions priority access to its
computational resources to solve problems regarding
COVID-19 disease research.
COMPUTING CENTER OF THE SLOVAK
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
SLOVAKIA
SAS Center of Operations – Computing Center is
planning to join the focus on solving problems related
to the spread of the COVID 19 disease by providing
priority machine time and premium technical support
for scientific projects linked to this subject.
Go to prace-ri.eu for more.