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January 09, 2009
Deadline to Apply for Time on TeraGrid: Jan. 15
Simpler application process -- new and upgraded resources available
Jan. 9 -- Scientists, engineers, and other U.S. researchers have until Jan. 15, 2009 (12:00 midnight local times) to apply for allocations of high-performance computer time and storage resources that are available through the TeraGrid for the allocation period of April 1, 2009, through March 31, 2010. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure (NSF-OCI), TeraGrid is an advanced network of resources in 11 sites across the continental U.S.
A simpler application process is now in effect. Awards are no longer separated into medium and large-sized allocations (formerly MRAC and LRAC). Awards of any size can now be submitted to any of the four quarterly allocations review meetings via POPS, the system for TeraGrid allocation requests. Start-up and education staff allocation requests are handled separately. For more information, see https://pops-submit.teragrid.org/.
A panel of computational experts known as the TeraGrid Allocations Committee (TRAC) reviews all requests quarterly. Resource requests are evaluated primarily on the appropriateness of the proposal for the cyberinfrastructure resources requested. At the TeraGrid quarterly meeting in December, the TRAC reviewed nearly 80 requests for TeraGrid resources and awarded more than 100 million processor-hours of compute time and nearly 300 terabytes of data storage. Those awards represent nearly five times the processor-hours awarded at the December 2007 allocations meeting.
New and upgraded systems are now available. NCSA's Lincoln, new in October 2008, delivers peak performance of 47.5 teraflops and is designed to push the envelope in the use of heterogeneous processors for scientific computing. Also new in October, Spur, TACC's HPC visualization cluster, enables users to access the high performance, parallel files systems on Ranger, NSF's first "Path to Petascale" system. Close coupling with Ranger enables Spur users to visualize terascale data sets without having to transfer files from Ranger to a separate visualization resource for post-processing. Spur nodes are integrated into the InfiniBand network fabric of Ranger, leveraging a peak performance of 579.4 teraflops. In February, 2009, NICS' Kraken will be upgraded to an XT5 system with a peak performance of more than 600 teraflops. As the most powerful system on the NSF TeraGrid, Kraken will deliver in excess of 700 million CPU hours per year and will include 16,000 compute sockets, 100 trillion bytes (100 terabytes) of memory, and 2,300 trillion bytes (2.3 petabytes) of disk volume. For a complete catalog of TeraGrid resources, visit http://teragrid.org/userinfo/hardware/resources.php.
About TeraGrid
The TeraGrid, sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure, is a partnership of people, resources and services that enables discovery in U.S. science and engineering. Through coordinated policy, grid software, and high-performance network connections, the TeraGrid integrates a distributed set of high-capability computational, data-management and visualization resources to make research more productive. With Science Gateway collaborations and education programs, the TeraGrid also connects and broadens scientific communities.
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