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August 25, 2006

DOE Shares INCITE with Industry

by Steve Conway, Conway Communications

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In mid-2005, the Department of Energy adopted the Council on Competitiveness' recommendation to expand the INCITE (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment) program to include industry, along with government and university research. In this exclusive HPCwire interview, we first talk about the expanded INCITE program with Doug Kothe, director of science for Oak Ridge National Laboratory's National Center for Computational Sciences. We then turn to Jeff Candy, principal scientist in the Energy Group of General Atomics, one of the initial companies participating in the expanded INCITE program. Jeff is a co-investigator for the General Atomics research project being carried out at ORNL under INCITE.

HPCwire: When did ORNL get involved in the INCITE program?

Kothe: The DOE INCITE program will be in its fourth year starting January 2007, and ORNL has been involved since January 2006, when our Cray XT3 and X1E systems became generally available. Involvement in INCITE is part of our responsibility as a DOE Leadership Computing Facility. The program gets us involved with a new set of researchers who are doing very interesting, very challenging things across a broad spectrum of disciplines. In part because of the findings and initiatives of the Council on Competitiveness, program eligibility was expanded to include industrial firms as well as government and academic researchers.

HPCwire: Three of the four 2006 industrial participants in INCITE are doing their work at ORNL. Why is that?

Kothe: General Atomics, Boeing and DreamWorks Animation are engaged in both fundamental and applied computer and computational science, and ORNL is the nation's largest computing resource for big, open science. The DOE Office of Science wants to help bring the country forward so we can be number one in all areas of science, including science as applied in industry. All INCITE proposals fit within the DOE Office of Science mission.

HPCwire: How much time does ORNL reserve for its INCITE partners?

Kothe: That's determined by the Office of Science, with input from facilities like ours as well as peer scientists in each domain. This year, roughly three million hours on our "Jaguar" Cray XT3 system and another 600,000 hours on our "Phoenix" Cray X1E system are being allocated to five INCITE projects. For 2007, 80 percent of the cycles on the Cray leadership-class computers at ORNL will be allocated through the INCITE program.

HPCwire: Who's eligible to apply for time under the INCITE program?

Kothe: It's open to all scientific researchers and research organizations, whether they're from government, academia or industry. Researchers don't need to have current DOE sponsorship. The projects have to be computationally intensive and large scale. They have to have the potential to make high-impact scientific advances through the use of a large allocation of computer time, resources, and data storage. Proposals can be for one to three years in length.

HPCwire: How does the process work for selecting INCITE winners?

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