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Obtaining Supercomputing Accounts on NSF CiP Resources. Tom Grzelak Office of Instructional and Research Technology. NSF Supercomputing History.TRANSCRIPT
Tom GrzelakOffice of Instructional and
Research Technology
Obtaining Supercomputing Accounts on NSF CiP Resources
• <1985 Funds HPC at university-level• 1985-6 Establish 5 Supercomputing Centers
- Cornell, NCSA, PSC, SDSC, JVN-P- JVN-P closes in 1990
• 1997 Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI)
- Nat Computational Science Alliance - NCSA- Nat PACI – SDSC
- Partnerships to develop tools, apps, architecture, data, etc
NSF Supercomputing History
• 2000 First Terascale Computing System- PSC “LeMieux” (6 TF)
• 2001 Teragrid – Distributed Terascale Facility- NCSA, SDSC, Argonne, CalTech (11.6 TF)
• 2002 Extensible Teragrid Facility- Added PSC “LeMieux” + Improvements (20 TF)
• 2003 ETF Improvements- ORNL, Indiana, Purdue, TACC (40 TF)
• 2005 PACI becomes Cyberinfrastructure Partnership (CiP)
NSF Supercomputing History
• www.ci-partnership.org
• Computational Resources– Non-TeraGrid: SDSCx4, NCSAx4– TeraGrid: 8 partners
• Visualization Resources (RAM, H/W, S/W)
• Data Resources (mysql,db2, LT storage, special filesystems)
CiP Resources
• Software Availability– support for many common software tools.– search engine for your particular package.
CiP Resources
• Eligibility- Faculty/Researcher/Post-Doc
• Types of Allocations
Getting CiP Accounts
• Be Prepared….– Know which platform to run on– Estimate of Service Units (SU)– 250 word abstract– CV
• Help: [email protected]
• Submit DAC, MRAC, LRAC via POPS
• Partnerships Online Proposal System
Getting CiP Accounts
• Computational Methodology (3)• Appropriate Use of Resources (4)• Efficient Use of Resources (4)• Local Computing Environment (6-)• Other Supercomputing Resources (-)• Prior Progress (-)• Hint: Sufficient info but do not overwhelm with details
Elements of a good proposal
• Do not share accounts
• Teragrid, NCSA, SCSD Forms• www.ci-partnership.org/Allocations/add_user.html
Add/Remove Users to a CiP Project
• Stay in touch… things change fast!
• Web-based tutorials
• Subscribe to mail lists
• Cyberinfrastructure Watch Quarterly- http://www.ctwatch.org
Part of the Community
• Feedback to [email protected] is appreciated.
• PPT Presentation can be found athttp://oirt.rutgers.edu/supercomputing.html
• NSF Draft CI Vision Statementhttp://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/CI-v40.pdf
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