NERSC Allocation Year 2006 Allocation Award Letter

Dear Principal Investigators,

Your DOE Office and NERSC are pleased to announce that you have received an Allocation Year 2006 award for your ERCAP request. AY 2006 will last ten months, from December 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006. (Note: the allocation year was later extended to January 8, 2007.) At this time only 80 percent of the available MPP time has been allocated to production projects (startup projects have received their full allocation). The remaining MPP time will be allocated after December 1.

Repositories that haven't used significant amounts of time are adjusted periodically by transferring a part of the unused balance to the corresponding DOE Office reserve. See: Allocation Management.

If you have any questions about your award, please contact your DOE Allocation Manager.

Acknowledging NERSC in Your Publications

Please acknowledge NERSC in your publications of work resulting from the use of NERSC resources:

"This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098."

Using the NERSC Information Management (NIM) system

Information related to NERSC users, accounts, and allocations is available in the NERSC Information Management (NIM) system. With NIM you can monitor your project's usage, add and delete users, change users' "allowed percents" (the percent of the MPP or HPSS repo the the user is entitled to use), etc.

You access NIM at http://nim.nersc.gov using your NERSC login name and NIM password (as you did to make your allocation request). Please read the NIM Guide for PIs, PI Proxies and Project Managers.

If you, the Principal Investigator, do not intend to monitor your repository, please designate one or more "Project Managers" to do this on your behalf. Send email to support@nersc.gov to let the Account Support group know who your project managers should be.

Establishing user lists for AY 2006 repositories

Starting December 1 you can add users to new AY 2006 repositories:

• click the "My Stuff" menu in the NIM main men, then
• select "Add/Revive User"

Note that users new to NERSC are required to sign and return the Computer Use Policies form. No account can be activated until this is done. The form is at: http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/policy/usage.php.

Also note that it is against NERSC policy to share usernames and passwords; each user must have her or his own account. See: User Account Ownership Policy.

PIs (or Proxies and Project Managers) with continuing repositories should review their user lists for AY 2006 by November 22. All current project members will continue by default, but you should check to see if any of your users have recently become inactive. See how to delete a user from your project.

Allocation request review process and scores

Most production projects have received a computational review in the past several years. Your most recent computational score is displayed in NIM's project information area (to get there enter your repository name next to the Go button in the NIM main menu and click Go). Only project PIs and Managers see this score (users do not).

More information on the review process and scores is available on the ERCAP Review Process page.

Keeping yourself and your users informed

We rely on our website: http://www.nersc.gov/ for informing NERSC users of changes that occur as well as for general NERSC documentation. If you fail to find information that you need at our Web site, please let us know by email to webmaster@nersc.gov.

We also use email lists to inform users of changes. Some lists are created automatically for all active users. The most important communications are sent to these lists. Users and PIs can also subscribe to other lists. We encourage you to join the NERSC Users Group email list, nug. Users subscribed to nug are informed of monthly NUG teleconferences where issues of concern to NERSC users are discussed. See: Announcements and Email Lists.

We look forward to working with you. If you have any questions, please contact the NERSC consultants via email (consult@nersc.gov) or telephone (800-66NERSC menu option 3, 510-486-8611).