SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER Accounting & Allocation Subhashini Sivagnanam SDSC Special Thanks to Dave Hart
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER Accounting Charging of accounts: ➔ Sus ( Service units or hours of compute time) ➔ p655 (8-way) nodes are charged as follows: SUs = P x Wallclock_Hours x Num_Nodes x 8 ➔ p690 (32-way) nodes are charged as follows: SUs = P x Wallclock_Hours x Num_Processors P= Priority (normal = 1; high = 2; express = 1.8) ➔ On dsdirect: Number of SUs charged = P x 32 x Wallclock Hours x MAX(Np/32, M/Mmax) Np = No of processors, M = Memory used by job, Mmax = Max memory available on node (256GB)
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER Checking your allocation balance ➔ To determine the allocation usage for a single user: % reslist -u username ➔ To determine the allocation usage for all users under a given account: % reslist -a grp000 ➔ To determine the allocation usage for jobs run within a particular time period: % reslist -j -u username -a grp --begindate=mm-dd-yyyy -- enddate=mm-dd-yyyy
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER Types of Allocations UC Academic Associates Special program for UC campuses You can request a starter account in just a few minutes. Development Allocation Committee (DAC) awards up to 10,000 CPU-hours or 1 TB of disk All you need is an abstract and CV. Larger allocations awarded through merit-review of proposals by panel of computational scientists.
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER Medium and large allocations Requests of 10, ,000 SUs reviewed quarterly. MRAC Requests of more than 200,000 SUs reviewed twice per year. LRAC Requests can span all NSF-supported resource providers Multi-year requests and awards are possible
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER New: Storage Allocations SDSC now making disk storage and database resources available via the merit-review process SDSC Collections Disk Space >200 TB of network-accessible disk for shared data collections TeraGrid GPFS-WAN ~200 TB parallel file system attached to several TG compute systems Portion available for long-term storage allocations SDSC Database Dedicated disk/hardware for high-performance databases –Oracle, DB2, MySQL
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER You Also Get… Quality User Support 24/7 Operations Help Desk Phone, Web, M-F, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Training Documentation
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER And all this will cost you… …absolutely nothing. $0 plus the time to write your proposal
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER Questions? allocations