From: tracs@epcc.ed.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: TRACS - Call for Applicants
Date: 12 Nov 1998 05:16:54 GMT
Organization: EPCC, University of Edinburgh
Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu
Message-Id: <72dr06$fu8$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu>
Originator: bigrigg@ece.cmu.edu


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**    TRACS: Training and Research on Advanced Computing Systems    **
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*** NEXT CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS - NOVEMBER 13th!!!! ***

Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre is coordinating an EC-funded
project to bring European researchers for short visits to associated
departments in Edinburgh to collaborate on projects involving High
Performance Computing (HPC). The TRACS programme is funded by the
Comission of the European Communities under the Training and Mobility 
of Researchers Programme (TMR).

TRACS provides:

  * opportunities to visit and work in Edinburgh 

  * access to a wide range of HPC systems, including 

        + Cray T3D (512 alphas)
	+ Cray T3E (328 alphas)
	+ Cray J90 (10 processors)
        + a Hitachi SR2201
	+ a Sun Enterprise 3000

  * training, support and consultancy on parallel computing

  * accommodation, travel and subsistence expenses

TRACS is open to both academic and industrial researchers who are
nationals of, and working in, an EC member state or an Associated
State (Iceland, Israel, Liechenstein and Norway).  Applications will
be reviewed by a selection panel and will be approved on the basis of
scientific merit.

For more information on EPCC and the TRACS programme and an electronic
application form, see http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/tracs/.  Any enquiries
should be sent to:

                    TRACS Administrative Secretary
                    EPCC
                    University of Edinburgh
                    JCMB, The King's Buildings
                    Edinburgh      EH9 3JZ
                    United Kingdom

                    Tel: +44 131 650 5030
                    Fax: +44 131 650 6555
                    Email: TRACSadmin@ed.ac.uk

The closing date for applications to be considered at the December
selection meeting is 13 November 1998.

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