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Financial Assistance Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-PS02-06ER06-26
Accelerating Delivery of Petascale Computing Environment The Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces interest in receiving applications for projects in the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program to accelerate delivery of a petascale computing environment to meet scientific computational needs. Many challenges of multi-scale, multi-disciplinary problems now facing science programs in DOE require advanced modeling and simulation capabilities of petascale computers. This Notice is seeking applications that contribute to the creation of Computational End Stations or the development of Computational Environments. Computational End Stations: The creation of Computational End Stations will provide the scientific applications software and world-class computational specialists needed for researchers in science and/or engineering to take full advantage of the extraordinary capabilities provided by the Leadership Computing Facility (LCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) (see supplementary information). This concept is described in the report produced by the High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force Workshop, which notes that "establishing Computational End Stations is one integrated solution to the needs of developers and users.... Application codes and their associated analysis tools are the instruments of computational science." Each Science/Engineering End Station team will be responsible for:
Computational Environment: A comprehensive, scientific computing software infrastructure that fully integrates applied mathematics, computer science, and computational science in the physical, biological, and environmental sciences for scientific discovery is required at the petascale level. Applications are sought that:
Component-based, fully integrated, terascale and petascale program development and tools, which scale effectively and provide maximum utility and ease-of-use to developers and scientific end users. Systems software that scale to hundreds-of-thousands of processors, support high performance application-level communication, I/O, performance analysis and optimization, and provide the highest levels of fault tolerance, reliability, manageability, and ease of use for end users, tool developers and system administrators. Scalable, intuitive systems fully supportive of SciDAC see: ( http://www.scidac.org) application requirements for moving, storing, analyzing, querying, manipulating and visualizing multi-petabytes of scientific data and objects.
Applications must describe the computational approach for interacting with the Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At a minimum, this description should include:
APPLICATION DUE DATE: October 11, 2006, 8 PM Eastern Time Applications must be submitted using Grants.gov, the Funding Opportunity Announcement can be found using the CFDA Number, 81.049 or the Funding Opportunity Announcement number, DE-PS02-06ER06-26. Applicants must follow the instructions and use the forms provided on Grants.gov.
PROGRAM MANAGERS: Walt Polansky and Barbara Helland SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Leadership Computing at ORNL LCF continues to leverage the substantial number of core system and applications software packages and kernels currently being developed and optimized for the XT3 and Red Storm systems under DOE-SC and DOE-NNSA sponsorship, as well as the growing base of application from other Cray XT3 customers. The allocation of computing resources available to individual projects will not be part of this solicitation but will be contingent on review and award through the process as described at: http://hpc.science.doe.gov/. Within the available computational resources, every effort will be made to ensure that successful applications will have the resources needed to support their efforts.
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