SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Tapping into National Cyberinfrastructure Resources Donald Frederick SDSC January 30, 2006

SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Allocations Overview Many Allocatable Federal CI Resources NSF DOE NIH NASA DOD Focus on NSF Supercomputer Centers and TeraGrid Allocation Types Eligibility Application Process Links

SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO NSF Centers Allocations Overview Three Levels of Compute Resource Allocations Entry-level, or “Developmental” Allocations- (DAC) < 10,000 SUs For new users, course accounts, etc. Accepted throughout the CY Only abstract and PIs CV required Medium Resource Allocations < 200,000 SUs Peer-reviewed For users with mature computational projects Reviewed quarterly by MRAC Large Resource Allocations > 200,000 SUs Peer-reviewed For users with very extensive computational requirements Reviewed twice annually by LRAC

SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO NSF Centers Allocations Overview (continued) Data Resource Allocations - SDSC also offers data allocations for long-term storage data collection hosting database hosting Data allocation requests - accepted and reviewed at any time

SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO NSF Centers Allocations Overview (continued) Eligibility (PI) must be a researcher or educator at a U.S. academic or non-profit research institution PIs with support from any funding source, not just NSF, are encouraged to apply SDSC follows guidelines from current NSF Grant Proposal Guide: Grant Proposal Guide

SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Application Process Choose Allocation Resource Choose Allocation Size Write Your Proposal Details for writing proposal to use any NSF-supported resource are available in the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Resource Allocation Policies.NSF Cyberinfrastructure Resource Allocation Policies Examples of well-written and successful MRAC and LRAC proposalsMRACLRAC Submit Your Proposal Compute Proposals submitted via secure NSF Partnership Online Proposal (POPS) Proposals for storage and data allocations must be submitted to

SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Links NSF POPS SDSC Allocations: DOE Office of Science FY2006 Call for Proposals for High Performance Computing Resources Call for Proposals for High Performance Computing Resources Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program - INCITE 2006 Proposals Proposals NIH Center for Information Technology for Information Technology