XSEDE is now accepting Research Allocation Requests for the allocation period, April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015. The submission period is from December 15, 2013 thru January 15, 2014. Please review the new XSEDE systems and important policy changes (see below) before you submit your allocation request through the XSEDE User Portal **NEW XSEDE Resources:** See the Resource Catalog for a list of XSEDE compute, visualization and storage resources, and more details on the new systems (https://portal.xsede.org/web/guest/resources/overview).
* Louisiana State University is pleased to announce it's newest supercomputer **SuperMIC**. Funded by an MRI grant from the NSF to LSU's Center for Computation & Technology, **SuperMIC** is currently in the acquisition phase. It is expected to be a 1 PetaFlop cluster with 360 compute nodes each with two 10-core 2.8GHz Intel Ivy Bridge-EP processors and 64GB of memory and 2 Intel Xeon Phi 7120P coprocessors. LSU previously participated in the TeraGrid program in conjunction with the LONI Queen Bee cluster. We are excited to have this opportunity to rejoin the national cyber-infrastructure and will be allocating 40% of **SuperMIC's** resources to XSEDE. We are slated to rejoin XSEDE April 1, 2014. http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/resources/hpc/system.php?system=SuperMIC
* The new **Maverick** HP/NVIDIA Interactive Visualization and Data Analytics System is intended primarily for interactive visualization and data analysis jobs to allow for interactive query of large-scale data sets. Normal batch queues will enable users to run simulations up to 6 hours for interactive jobs and 24 hours for GPGPU and HPC jobs. Maverick will be configured with 132 HP ProLiant SL250s Gen8 compute nodes and 132 NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU accelerators. Maverick will be taking the place of the TACC Longhorn resource.
* **Storage Allocations:** Continuing this submission period, access to XSEDE storage resources along with compute resources will need to be requested and justified, both in the POPS application and the body of the proposal s main document. The following XSEDE sites will be offering allocatable storage facilities, these are:
**PSC (Data SuperCell)**
**SDSC (Data Oaisis)**
**TACC (Ranch)**
**XSEDE-Wide File System (XWFS)**
Storage needs have always been part of allocation requests, however, XSEDE will be enforcing the storage awards in unison with the storage sites. Please see (https://www.xsede.org/storage).
**RETIRING XSEDE resources:**
**NICS Kraken(April 30, 2014)**
**TACC Lonestar(June 30, 2014)**
**TACC Longhorn(February 1, 2014)** - Please see information above about the TACC Maverick resource that will be replacing Longhorn.
These retiring resources, listed above, will not be available for new requests from this date forward.
**Estimated Available Service Units/GB for upcoming meeting:** Georgia Tech HP/NVIDIA (Keeneland) **1,500,000** Indiana University HP DL580 Large Memory Cluster (Mason) **300,000** Indiana University Gateway/Web Service Hosting (Quarry) **40** LSU (SuperMIC) **2,000,000** Open Science Grid (OSG) **2,000,000** PSC SGI Altix UV (Blacklight) **5,000,000** PSC Persistent disk storage (Data SuperCell) **100,000** SDSC Appro Linux Cluster (Trestles) **16,000,000** SDSC Appro with Intel Sandy Bridge Cluster (Gordon Compute Cluster) **25,000,000** SDSC Medium-term disk storage (Data Oasis) **250,000** TACC HP/NVIDIA Interactive Visualization and Data Analytics System (Maverick) **3,000,000** TACC Dell PowerEdge C8220 Cluster with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors (Stampede) **175,000,000** TACC Long-term tape Archival Storage (Ranch) **8,000,000** XSEDE-Wide File System (XWFS) **150,000**
**Allocation Request Procedures and Policy Changes:**
In the past code performance and scaling was to be a section addressed in all research requests main document, this section seems to have been overlooked by many PIs in the recent quarterly research submission periods which has led to severe reductions or even complete rejection of both new and renewal requests. Continuing this quarterly submission period it will be mandatory to upload a scaling and code performance document detailing your code efficiency. Please see section 7.2 Review Criteria, of the Allocations Policy document(https://portal.xsede.org/group/xup/allocation-policies).
Also, it will become mandatory to discuss/detail, in a separate uploaded document, the disclosure of access to other cyberinfrastructure resources(e.g. NSF Blue Waters, DOE INCITE resources, local campus, ) should be detailed in the main document. Please see section 7.3 Review Criteria, of the Allocations Policy document(https://portal.xsede.org/group/xup/allocation-policies). The failure to disclose access to these resources could lead to severe reductions or even complete rejection of both new and renewal requests. If there is no access to other cyberinfrastructure resources this should be made clear as well.
For more information about writing a successful research proposal as well as examples of successful research allocation requests please see: https://portal.xsede.org/successful-requests
If you would like to discuss your plans for submitting a research request please send email to the XSEDE Help Desk at help@xsede.org. Your questions will be forwarded to the appropriate XSEDE Staff for their assistance.
Ken Hackworth
XSEDE Resource Allocations Coordinator
help@xsede.org
