The Fortissimo project (FP7 contract 609029) is funding a set of experiments (sub-projects) to drive the creation and demonstrate the business potential of an HPC-Cloud service ecosystem. Additional application experiments are sought to complement (i.e addressing different areas from those experiments already funded) and to extend current project activities. These experiments should be driven by the business needs of manufacturing SMEs.

About Fortissimo – The principal objective of Fortissimo is to enable European manufacturing, particularly SMEs, to benefit from the improvements to the design process and competitive advantage inherent in the use of simulation. This will be achieved through the provision of simulation services running on an HPC-based cloud infrastructure. Fortissimo will make advanced simulation accessible to industrial users, particularly SMEs, through the realisation of a “one-stop shop” where hardware, expertise, applications, visualisation and tools will be easily available and affordable on a pay-per-use basis.

Expectations for the new experiments – Fortissimo seeks new application experiments which will investigate and demonstrate the provision of simulation services in the Fortissimo HPC Cloud that are driven by the business needs of manufacturing SMEs. Priority will be given to proposals for experiments which complement the activities already included within Fortissimo. Proposed experiments should involve all participants necessary for the experiment, which may include HPC experts, HPC Centres or ISVs either within or external to the current Fortissimo consortium. Experiments will employ the Fortissimo HPC infrastructure using the HPC Centres already involved in the project.

Call closure: June 18th 2014 at 17h00, Brussels local time.
Foreseen budget for the Call: up to 2 M€ funding for new beneficiaries; the funding for individual experiments should not exceed 250 K€.

Further information: www.fortissimo-project.eu/calls