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INCITE 2005 Proposals
2005 Call for Proposals (closed)
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center at the
U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory solicits
proposals for large
allocations of computing resources. The
Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory
and Experiment (INCITE) program will award a total of 5.5 million processor
hours and 100 terabytes of mass storage on the systems described at
http://www.nersc.gov/.
The program seeks computationally intensive
research projects of large scale, with no requirement of current
Department of Energy sponsorship, that can make high-impact scientific
advances through the use of a large allocation of computer time and data
storage at the NERSC facility. A small number of large awards is
anticipated.
Successful proposals will describe high-impact scientific research in
terms suitable for peer review in the area of research and also
appropriate for general scientific review comparing them with proposals
in other disciplines. Applicants must also present evidence that they
can make effective use of a major fraction of the 6,656 processors of the main high
performance computing facility at NERSC. Applicant codes must be
demonstrably ready to run in a massively parallel manner on that
computer (the IBM SP, Seaborg).
Eligibility: Principal investigators engaged in scientific research
with the intent to publish results in the open peer-reviewed literature
are eligible. This program specifically encourages proposals from
universities, other research institutions and industry.
Industry is specifically solicited to propose challenging problems that may be
solved using high performance computing research.
There is no
requirement of
current sponsorship by the Office of Science of the Department of
Energy, which sponsors the NERSC Center.
Application Process:
Applications will be accepted only electronically,
following instructions found at
http://www.nersc.gov/projects/incite/incitecall.php.
Proposals will
be accepted until midnight PDT Wednesday, September 8, 2004. Awards are expected
to be announced by November 8, 2004, and access to the NERSC facilities for
the awardees will be established on December 1, 2004,
and remain in effect until November 30, 2005. Questions about the
application procedure should be directed to
incite-info@nersc.gov.
Proposal Submission Instructions / Download Proposal
Form
- Download the INCITE
Proposal Form Word document. This is accomplished by clicking
the link and saving the Word document on your computer.
- Edit the downloaded INCITE proposal form and answer all the questions fully.
- Submit your completed INCITE proposal as an attachment sent by email to
incite-submit@nersc.gov.
CVs may be inserted in the INCITE proposal word document (preferred) or attached as separate documents. Email submissions will
be accepted until midnight PDT Wednesday, September 8, 2004.
You will receive an electronic acknowledgment of your submission.
- Questions about the
application procedure should be directed to
incite-info@nersc.gov.
Instructions for the INCITE Proposal Questions
| 1. Principal Investigator (Name, Phone, Email, Institution) |
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The Principal Investigator is responsible for
the project and for managing any resources awarded to the project.
If your project has multiple Principal Investigators, please pick one to be
listed here. Co-Principal Investigators can be listed under question 2.
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| 2. Co-Principal Investigators (Name, Phone, Email, Institution) |
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Co-Principal Investigators and other senior project members should be listed
here.
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| 3. Project Title |
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Choose a project title that succinctly describes the INCITE project you intend
to do at NERSC.
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| 4. Science Category |
Check the science category that best categorizes your project:
- Accelerator Physics
- Applied Mathematics
- Astrophysics
- Chemical Sciences
- Climate Research
- Computer Sciences
- Engineering Physics
- Environmental Sciences
- Fusion Energy (Plasma Physics)
- Geosciences
- High Energy Physics
- Lattice Gauge Theory
- Life Sciences
- Materials Sciences
- Nuclear Physics
- Other (please specify)
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| 5. Resources Requested |
- 5.1 Raw processor hours on the
NERSC IBM SP (Seaborg):
- This is total connect (or wallclock) time multiplied by the number of processors used.
To be more exact (since each Seaborg node has 16 processors and charging is
node-based), it is connect time multiplied by the number of nodes used
multiplied by 16.
- 5.2 Gigabytes of IBM SP storage:
- State your needs for both home
directory storage and scratch storage.
- 5.3 Gigabytes or terabytes of mass storage:
- State your storage
requirements for NERSC's High Performance Storage
System.
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| 6.1 Does this project use or generate sensitive or restricted
information? (Check appropriate box.) |
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Select Yes or No.
NERSC Principal Investigators are responsible for knowing whether their project
uses or generates sensitive or restricted information.
NERSC systems contain data only related to scientific research and do not
contain personally identifiable information. Therefore, you should answer
Yes if your project uses or generates data that falls under the Privacy
Act of 1974 5U.S.C. 552a.
Use of NERSC resources to store, manipulate, or remotely access any national
security information is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to,
classified information, unclassified controlled nuclear information (UCNI),
naval nuclear propulsion information (NNPI), the design or development of
nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or of any weapons of mass destruction.
For more information contact the Office of Domestic and International Energy
Policy, Department of Energy, Washington DC 20585, 202-586-9211.
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| 6.2
If this project is given an INCITE award, I agree to monitor the usage associated
with it to ensure that, to the best of my ability to determine, usage is for
the project described here. (Check appropriate box.) |
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Select Yes or No.
NERSC Principal Investigators and their designated Project Managers
are responsible for monitoring the computer usage associated with their
project.
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| 7. Funding Sources |
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Select Yes or No.
If you have a research grant from the DOE Office of Science click Yes and enter the
grant number. Otherwise click No and list all of your funding agencies together
with their grant numbers. If you are funded by the Office of Science AND by other
funding agencies you should click Yes, enter the DOE grant number, and then list
the other funding agencies.
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| 8. Other High Performance Computing Support for this Project |
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List high performance computing support being received from outside NERSC in
support of this project.
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| 9. Project Summary |
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Provide a brief, one or two paragraph executive summary of the proposed research.
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| 10. Description of Research |
| 10.1 Research Objectives |
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Describe the proposed research, including its goals and the theoretical and
computational methods it employs. This section, including references, should
not exceed 6 pages.
Proposals will be evaluated on both scientific and
computational merit, so the information should be sufficient for peer review in
your area of research and also appropriate for general scientific review
comparing your proposal with proposals in other disciplines. The context of the
proposed research in your research area is addressed further in question 8.2,
and the computational and numerical methods are addressed in question 8.3.
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| 10.2 Significance of Research |
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Place the proposed research in the context of competing work in your discipline.
In addition, explain what scientific advance you expect to be enabled by an
INCITE award during its duration that justifies an urgent allocation
of large-scale computing resources.
This section, including references, should not exceed 4 pages.
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| 10.3 Computational Approach |
For each of the major codes you intend to use for this project,
describe the computational techniques you will apply to this problem:
- Programming languages, libraries, and other software used.
- Description of the underlying mathematical
formulation (e.g., ODE, PDE).
- Algorithms and numerical techniques employed (e.g., finite element,
iterative solver).
- Parallel programming system used (e.g., MPI, OpenMP, "embarrassingly"
parallel).
- NERSC and INCITE focus on highly parallel applications. Please
provide
evidence that the principal computational codes to be used in this project will
make effective use of a major fraction of Seaborg's 6,656 processors. Please comment on efficiency.
- For data-intensive applications, describe the data storage
and transfer requirements.
This section, including references, should not exceed 6 pages.
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| 11. Biographical Sketches |
Provide a 2-page CV for all participants
listed under questions 1 and 2,
describing:
- professional preparation (undergraduate and graduate education and
postdoctoral training)
- appointments (a list, in reverse chronological order,
of all the individual's academic/professional appointments beginning with the
current appointment)
- publications (a list of up to 5 publications most
closely related to the proposed project; and up to 5 other significant
publications, whether or not related to the proposed project)
- synergistic activities (a list of up to 5 examples that
demonstrate the broader impact of the
individual's professional and scholarly activities that focus on the
integration and transfer of knowledge as well as its creation)
- collaborators (a list of collaborators and co-editors from the past 48
months, graduate and postdoctoral advisors, thesis advisor and
postgraduate-scholar sponsors)
Short CVs in standard NSF format are preferable. See the description at
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03041/2.htm#IIC2f under section 2.C.f.
Biographical Sketches.
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