1. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER Accounting & Allocation Subhashini Sivagnanam SDSC Special Thanks to Dave Hart

2. 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)

3. 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

4. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER Types of Allocations UC Academic Associates Special program for UC campuses www.sdsc.edu/user_services/aap 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.

5. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER Medium and large allocations Requests of 10,001-200,000 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

6. 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

7. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER You Also Get… Quality User Support 24/7 Operations Help Desk Phone, Web, e-mail M-F, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Training Documentation

8. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER And all this will cost you… …absolutely nothing. $0 plus the time to write your proposal

9. SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER Questions? http://www.sdsc.edu/user_services/ allocations allocations@sdsc.edu academic-associates@sdsc.edu