EPSRC: ARCHER 2 pioneer projects

23/07/2020

07/09/2020

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites applications for the ARCHER 2 pioneer projects. These provide researchers with large amounts of computational resource to conduct computationally intensive modelling, simulation and calculations. A total of 3.35 million compute units is available for five to eight projects. Requests for allocations must be for a minimum of 165,000 CU per year, for up to two years.

The objectives are to: •encourage and facilitate high-risk and high-reward research that has significant potential for large future impact; •award significant computational time to enable leading researchers and research groups to conduct large and ambitious projects delivering high-quality research within EPSRC’s remit; •encourage and support projects which need to use a very large number of processing cores; •challenge and develop the skills of experienced teams in the computational research community; •develop techniques at the forefront of high performance computing; •support research that is of high national importance and could lead to significant scientific or socio-economic impact.

The PI must be resident in the UK and an academic employee at the lecturer or equivalent level at an eligible organisation, which may be an HEI, a research institute funded by a research council or an independent research organisation.