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Last year, the CHPC announced the call for Flagship Project proposals with the following criteria:
- The Flagship Project must aim at resolving a major scientific/socio-economic challenge in South Africa. Its fundamental drive should thus address in part
- a well identified major scientific/technological problem in a specific field or
- a noteworthy political and/or socio-economic South African or African problem.
- The Flagship Project must be immediately (within no more than two months of porting onto the CHPC platform) and massively parallelizable.
- After completion, a Flagship Project will receive 12-18 months of continuing CHPC support. The results are expected to be of general scientific interest and captivating enough to attract the attention of major, high profile scientific journals such as Science and Nature.
- The Flagship Project results must display potential to take advantage of a visualization team that will develop a CHPC-supported high school science outreach programme and "market" the project and CHPC to the public.
The CHPC team was very excited upon receipt of the 24 fascinating pre-proposals received as the result of the Call for Proposals. After a careful evaluation process, 11 pre-proposals were invited to develop full proposals. The investigators of these projects delivered a series of public presentations at the November 2006 CHPC conference. The content was judged by a panel of reputable international scientists including Professor Martyn Guest (HPCx, UK), Professor Andrew Pollard (Queens, Canada), Professor Volker Lindenstruth (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Germany) and Dr. Radha Nandkumar (NCSA, USA). After a long and difficult deliberation, the CHPC was privileged to award the following investigators with prestigious Flagship Project grants:
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