|
ΘΕΜΑ: [grids] HP-SEE Pilot Call for Access to Regional HPC
Resources ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΕΑΣ: Χαρά Τριγύρη [mailto:trigyri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Ακολουθεί ή ανακοίνωση της πρόσκληση για υποβολή
προτάσεων για πρόσβαση σε υπερ-υπολογιστικά συστήματα τα οποία προσφέρονται από
το έργο HP-SEE (http://www.hp-see.eu).
Λεπτομέρειες μπορείτε να βρείτε και στο: http://www.hp-see.eu/hp-see-pilot-call-announcement. Pilot Call for Access to HP-SEE Systems
Introduction
The HP-SEE, High-Performance
Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s Research Communities (http://www.hp-see.eu) project
opens a pilot call for proposals, for project access to HPC resources
available in the region of South East Europe. The call is addressed to
scientists of the region in the fields of Computational Chemistry, Computational Physics,
Life Sciences, Earth and Space Sciences, and Engineering. Via
this call the HP-SEE project makes it possible for regional scientists from the
above-mentioned scientific disciplines to have access to thenational HPC systems
available in South East Europe. In
collaboration with the LinkSCEEM-2 project (http://www.linksceem.eu/ls2/), HP-SEE will also provide
limited resources to applications from the Eastern Mediterranean region.Access
will be awarded for a period of 12 months, beginning 1st of
December 2012. The resource architectures available for this call span from
a BlueGene/P Supercomputer, x86 based HPC clusters
with high speed interconnect, to clusters with GPUs, and will be provided by
Bulgaria, FYR of Macedonia, Hungary, Romania and Serbia. Scope and criteria of access
The pilot call enables researches from the South Eastern Europe
region to obtain access to powerful national High Performance Computing systems
available in the SEE region. Project Proposals must be of high scientific and
social value. The principles for acceptance of projects to available resources
will be: · Scientific
Excellence · Impact of the proposed research · The need for HPC resources · Experience of the principal
investigator and their team · Provision of access to new
scientific communities not previously associated to the HP-SEE project · Fair access to the resources from
all countries of the region · Feasibility of the project based in
a technical evaluation and the availability of resources · A limited number of applications
will be selected for this 1st pilot
call in the region (around 10 projects). Eligibility
Eligible
applicants are scientists affiliated with academic or research institutions
from the following countries: Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Serbia, FYR of
Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Moldova, Armenia,
Georgia, Azerbaijan. Applications
from the Eastern Mediterranean region will be proposed from LinkSCEEM-2and
final decision for time allocations will be taken from the HP-SEE pilot call’s
access committee (see bellow). Applicants should commit to the usage of the resources that will be
allocated to them as well as providing reports of their work based on the
proposed time schedule (see bellow). Further to that scientists should
acknowledge the use of the HP-SEE infrastructure in all publications presenting
results obtained from using the allocated resources. Available Systems
A hybrid HPC cluster
offering a 3.2 TFlops CPU (Intel Xeon X5560)
sub-cluster and a 4.6 Tflops double precision GPU sub-cluster
is being available in Bulgaria. Two AMDOpteron HPC clusters
with 5.4 and 14 Tflops performance respectively,
an SGIUltraviolet SMP machine
with a performance of 10 Tflops, an SGI HPC system
with Intel Xeon processors offering a
performance of 18 Tflops being available in
Hungary. An Intel Xeon based HPC cluster
with a performance of 6 Tflops being available from
Serbia. An Intel Xeon based HPC cluster
with 2.72 Tflops performance, a GPU Cluster
with 480 GPU cores, and a BlueGene/P
Supercomputer with a performance of 13.4Tflops begin offered by Romania.
A 7.76 Tflops HPC cluster
with Intel Xeon processors being offered
by FYR of Macedonia. In total
around 4.6 Million CPU core hours and 1.8 Million GPU Core
hours will be available for the selected scientific projects. The number of
cores available in the HPCsystems range from, 256 to 4096 for
the CPU based systems, and from 480 to 3584 for the GPU systems. Application process All
proposals should be submitted electronically via the following link:http://survey.ipb.ac.rs/hp-see-pilot-call. The Pilot
call organizing committee will be available to answer questions while the call
is open. You can contact the pilot call OC by e-mail at oc-pilot-call@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Deadline
for submission of proposals to the pilot call is Friday the 5th of October 2012, at 18:00 CEST. Process details and deadlines
After the
close of the call at the 5th of
October 2012 at 18:00 CEST the pilot call organizing
committee will validate the applications and in cases clarifications are needed
those have to be provided by the 10th of
October. The proposals will undergo a technical review in
order to determine the suitability of running the applications in the requested
system. Technical reviewers are allowed to ask for clarifications from
applicants. Technical reviewers are experts of the participating HPC centers
(Centers offering resources to the plot call) and are assigned based on the
type of system requested from applicants. After the technical evaluation, the proposals will undergo scientific peer review by
selected scientific reviewers from all the participating countries in the
region. The peer review will be performed based on the following principles:
· Scientific reviewers are selected
based on the scientific field of each proposal. · The reviewer’s country should be
different from the applicants country (Primary Investigator is taken into
account). · Applicant does not know the
scientific reviewer’s name. · Results of review are sent to the
applicant. · Applicants have the right to provide
clarifications to the review. · Final review report is created from
the reviewer The pilot call access committee does
the prioritization of applications based on the criteria set in Section “Scope and criteria of
access” of this document. The applicants will be notified of the final results of the
evaluation and successful applicants will receive further details on the system
they got access to and the process to obtain user accounts. Time table: ·
Opening date: 7th September
2012. ·
Closing Date: 5th October
2012, at 18:00 CEST ·
Question to applicants by organizing committee (if needed): 9th of October ·
Clarification provided by applicants if needed: 12th of October 2012 ·
Initial Scientific Review provided to applicants: 26th of October · Response of Applicants to reviewers
(if needed): 31st October 2012 ·
Final Scientific Review sent to applicants (if needed): 7th November 2012 ·
Anticipated allocation decisions: 21st November
2012 ·
Allocation Start Date of awarded proposals: 1st of December 2012 ·
1st Report from successful project
primary investigator: 15th May
2013 · Allocation end date of award: 30th
November 2013 ·
Final report from successful project primary investigator: 20th December 2013. Contacts
For any
queries related to applications please contact: oc-pilot-call@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx About
HP-SEE, High-Performance
Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s Research Communities works
across strategic lines of action to link existing and upcoming HPC facilities
in South East Europe in a common infrastructure, and to provide operational
solutions for it, as well as HPC user and applications support. As a
complementary action, the project has established and maintains two GÉANT links
for Southern Caucasus. The initiative opens the South East European HPC
infrastructure to a wide range of new user communities, including those of
less-resourced countries, fostering collaboration and providing advanced
capabilities to researchers, with an emphasis on strategic groups in
computational physics, computational chemistry and life sciences. HP-SEE
receives EC support through FP7 under the "Research Infrastructures"
action. -- |
Attachment:
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature