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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: allocations@ci-partnership.org
• 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 grzelak@rutgers.edu 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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