From: Francesca Verdier (fverdier_at_lbl.gov)
Date: 02/19/2008
Dear NERSC users, NERSC and DOE are pleased to announce that 26 million MPP hours have been set aside for a Scaling Reimbursement program on Franklin. This program is intended to help projects understand and improve the scaling characteristics of their codes and to be able to scale efficiently to at least 2,416 processors (1,208 nodes). This number corresponds to 1/8th of the computational processors, and NERSC has to meet the DOE metric that at least 40% of the time used on Franklin is by jobs running on 1/8th or more of its processors. The target projects for this program are those whose codes are already scaled to the 1,000 or so processor range, but are not yet typically run at 2,416+ processors. To apply: send email to consult_at_nersc_dot_gov and explain briefly what you know about the scaling bottlenecks your codes have, and the work you might undertake to overcome them. Let us know if you would like consulting help to help scale your codes. Projects enrolled in this program will be reimbursed for 2,416+ processor jobs on a first run first reimbursed basis until the 25 million hours are exhausted, and with a cap of 2 million hours per project. -- Francesca Verdier email: fverdier@lbl.gov Associate Manager, NERSC Services phone: 510-486-7193
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