Call for Proposal

2010 Consortium Research Projects

In the past three years, the CHPC Flagship Project grants have provided the partnership framework to support the development of several noteworthy research projects (More information about the previous Flagship Projects). As the results of this fruitful partnership, the projects have made significant progress in fulfilling their research missions.

In the 2010, the CHPC intends to leverage the expertise of our computational researchers in addressing a variety of scientific- and socio-economic challenges whose solution can be advanced with the utilisation of innovative HPC solution(s). Considering that the nature of these grand challenges can be highly intricate, their solutions may require a multifaceted range of expertise which may well be dispersed over different niche research groups within the country. Hence the objective of the Consortium Research Project is to provide a leveraging mechanism to harness collaboration between South African-based scientists and promote an exchange of knowledge amongst the members of our HPC communities. (The Call for Proposals can be downloaded here)

In order to be eligible to submit a formal Flagship Project proposal (application form can be downloaded from here), the Principal Investigator (PI) must gather the appropriate co-investigators as suggested in the guideline and submit a joint proposal to the CHPC Research and HCD Office before 5pm on Friday 16th October 2009. The proposals must be submitted electronically to the CHPC R&HCD office (email address: jyjchen@csir.co.za ). Only electronic copies of the proposal will be accepted. Please note that while the guidelines for this Call for Proposal are in .pdf format, the application form of the Consortium Research Project will be in an .odt format. In order to complete the application form, please download OpenWriter from this website http://download.openoffice.org.