Through DECI, now in its fifth year, scientists are tackling a wide range of scientific challenges in materials science, astronomical science, particle and plasma physics, earth sciences, biological sciences and engineering. Successful projects are chosen for their potential to achieve ground-breaking scientific results through the use of supercomputers, enabling them to run more detailed and accurate simulations of scientific problems than was previously possible.

Multi-national proposals are especially encouraged and the latest projects to be supported include RBflow, an engineering project with ten partners from four countries in Europe, the USA, Japan and China, and SolarAct, an astronomy collaboration with involving researchers from four European countries and from the USA. Staff from DEISA will work closely with the researchers on each project, providing specialist applications support to optimise the scientific codes and deploy them on the most appropriate architecture.

Alison Kennedy, Co-ordinator of DECI, stated: "DEISA is delighted to be able to provide compute resources and applications enabling assistance to researchers in so many innovative projects. This year, we attracted 75 proposals from 21 European countries. This shows the wide appeal and relevance of DECI across Europe."