The epp team has been awarded an equivalent of 8000 years of computation on Fermi by PRACE for the project “Amplification and propagation of intense tailored laser pulses in underdense plasmas” (co-PIs: M. Vranic, J. Vieira, L. O. Silva). The project will explore how specially tailored pulses (with orbital angular momentum, pre-designed spectral features, or tailored intensity profiles e.g. sequences of trailing pulses) interact with plasmas and their potential impact on a wide range of scientific and technological applications. The project of the epp eam was selected together with 17 others among the total of 107 proposals submitted to the 11^th PRACE call.