more on the 2005 Call for ERCAP proposals

From: Francesca Verdier (fverdier_at_lbl.gov)
Date: 07/01/2004


Dear NERSC Project Managers,

I'm afraid I left off a sentence in the Call I sent out last night.  The 
online version is still the best place to read the Call:

http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/accounts/allocations/piletter05.php

The start of the Call should have been:


The DOE Office of Science solicits proposals for large allocations of
computing resources at NERSC for the period December 1, 2004 through
November 30, 2005.  In addition, computing resources are being made
available to the Office of Science allocation process from PNNL's
Molecular Science Computing Facility MSCF (<http://mscf.emsl.pnl.gov/>).

The deadline for submitting proposals is midnight, Wednesday September
1, 2004.

2005 allocations will be made for the following Office of Science resources:

1. Seaborg <http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/resources/SP/>, an IBM Power3
SP at NERSC with 6,080 computational processors.

2. A new computational machine at NERSC. This new system is expected
to deliver at least 15% of the performance of Seaborg. The target
workload is the set of codes that have problems scaling efficiently on
Seaborg and which are typically run on 32 to 256 Seaborg
processors. 55.5 million SP3-equivalent hours will be allocated for
both Seaborg and the new system. The two systems will share a common
allocation.

3. MPP2, an HP Itanium-2 Linux system at the Molecular Science
Computing Facility (MSCF) at Pacific Northwest National Lab. MPP2 has
1,960 processors. Five percent of the MPP2 resources (730,000 raw
hours) will be allocated by the Office of Science. The rest of the
time is allocated directly by the MSCF.

4. HPSS, NERSC's Mass Storage System. 14 million Storage Resource
Units will be allocated.


Sincerely,

-- 
Francesca Verdier                   email: fverdier@lbl.gov
Group Lead, NERSC User Services     phone: 510-486-7193

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