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8/20/11 11:31 PM
Hello,

I have some very basic questions to ask. I have looked through the available documentation, but I don't have a big knowledge of supercomputers. So, I'll just list them off:

(1) All of these resources are only available to NSF PIs, correct?

(2) Do you need to state in the NSF grant your intention to utilize XSEDE resources to get access to XSEDE?

(3) Is there a minimum amount of processing needs before you can use XSEDE?

(4) So these are the types of things my colleagues would be doing (I know that it took them many days running an entire university lab to do these tasks, and what we would be doing now is much larger in scope):

(a) Markov Chain type ideal point estimations using R, Stata, SPSS, and other statistical programs
(b) processing and converting data types back and forth between those programs' file type and others like .txt .xls etc
(c) I might also have an executable program that needs to access a folder where a bunch of text files are and it does a lot of self contained processing and spits out some other files that I would need to download.

(5) None of us are greatly skilled in computer science, (they are very knowledgeable in statistical programs) so is there fairly comprehensive user assistance in using the XSEDE resources?

Thanks so much for any answers!
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