National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme

National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme Application Form

This proposal is for the 2013.q1 time allocation round.

Table of Contents

  1. - Administrative Summary
    1. Project Title
    2. Details of Researchers
    3. Anticipated Percentage Usages per Organisation
    4. ANZSRC Research Classifications
    5. Proposal Summary
    6. Related Projects
    7. Academic Referees
  2. - Publications and Research Funding
    1. Summary of Research Support
    2. Research Track Record of each Chief Investigator
  3. - Research Proposal
    1. Significance, Impact and Innovation of the Research
    2. Relationship to National Research Priorities
    3. Relationship to NCRIS and Super Science Capabilities
    4. National Benefit of the Research
  4. - Resource Requirements and Justification of Needs
    1. Resource Requests
    2. Justify the total amount of Time (System Units) requested
    3. Justify the total amount of Data Storage requested
    4. Indicate why access to the applied for systems is critical to your work
    5. Describe the algorithms used, and the types of calculations involved
    6. Describe the nature of your jobs - Distributed vs Single CPU vs GPU
    7. Special Software Requirements
    8. Other Special Requirements
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Section A - Administrative Summary

Project Code dq4  
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Project Title

Example NCMAS form for 201

Details of Researchers

Lead Chief Investigator
Existing Identity(*) CONNECT User Requires a Login Account on the System?(**) YES Researcher Role(***) Lead CI
Surname Testing First Name Forms Middle Initial F
E-Mail Address forms.testing@anusf.anu.edu.au Office Phone Missing Data Mobile Phone Missing Data
University or Institution Missing Data Faculty or Division Missing Data Position Held Missing Data
(*) Specify a registered id number, or a previously or currently held login on the NCI National Facility systems, the Surname and the required connection status, and the CI or other Researcher role. If the person does not have an existing identity they must get one by registering. Actual login names are decided by system admin, and cannot be selected by users.
(**) A login account gives access to the system resources, and enables access to the update details web forms.
(***)The first listed researcher must be the Lead Chief Investigator(Lead CI). Select CI for other Chief Investigators, and Researcher for students, research assistants, research associates and other staff etc.

After the first form save of a NEW project, it is not possible to add to the listed researchers on the reloaded form. Between Saves and form reloads the conection request form may be used to add extra people.

Anticipated Percentage Usages per Organisation

Organisation:Percentage
Australian National University 100

ANZSRC Research Classifications

ANZSRC Fields of Research(FOR) codes.
FOR codePercentageDescription
010101 100Algebra and Number Theory

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective(SEO) codes.

SEO codePercentageDescription
910101 100Balance of Payments

Proposal Summary

In only 100 to 150 words of plain English, please summarise aims, significance and expected outcomes of the project.
Proposal Summary In only 100 to 150 words of plain English, please summarise aims, significance and expected outcomes of the project.

Related Projects

If the Lead Chief Investigator is associated with any other established or proposed projects under the NCMAS please detail the projects and their relationship to this project.
Related Projects If the Lead Chief Investigator is associated with any other established or proposed projects under the NCMAS please detail the projects and their relationship to this project.

Academic Referees

Please nominate academic referees, including their email and fax contacts.
(You are encouraged to nominate one international and one national referee.)
Academic Referees Please nominate academic referees, including their email and fax contacts. (You are encouraged to nominate one international and one national referee.)

If you wish, nominate persons whom you do not wish to be consulted as referees.

If you wish, nominate persons whom you do not wish to be consulted as referees.

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Section B - Publications and Research Funding

Summary of Research Support

Provide a summary of all recent research support. This should include current grants and all funding granted in the past three years.

Grant ID Funding Body Specify OTHER Funding Body Total Grant($'000) First Quarter Final Quarter Investigator Names - please indicate the Lead CI of the Grant with an asterisk. Project Title
123 OTHER somefundingbody 50 2009.q4 2014.q2 Testing, N F * Example

Explain the dependence of the funding above on the use of the facilities being requested in this application. If the applied for resources are crucial in making progress on the other grants, please provide details.

Explain the dependence of the funding above on the use of the facilities being requested in this application. If the applied for resources are crucial in making progress on the other grants, please provide details.

Research Track Record of each Chief Investigator

Testing, Forms

Note that this table entry can be compiled by selecting and pasting from word processors.
Please preserve the prefilled headers in the entry box, and add an empty line between each publication., last updated at

Publications, Awards, Honours and Prizes
 

Career H-index Enter an integer value

Number of citations over your full career Enter an integer value

H-index relevant to the papers published in the past 5 complete years (from 2007 to current year) Enter an integer value

Number of citations relevant to papers published in the past 5 complete years (from 2007 to current year) Enter an integer value

The method used to extract the citations data quoted above - e.g. Web of knowledge, Google Scholar, Scopus.

 

Testing, Forms

In approximately half of one A4 page, please provide the following
  1. An outline of your most significant research contributions during your career,
  2. Your impact on the research field over the past 10 years, and
  3. A brief statement of your computational expertise and experience.

Research Contributions and Experience
Missing Data

The year in which your PhD was achieved 0

The percentage of time available to you in your professional work for research averaged over the past 5 years (from 2007 to current year) 0

Any career interruptions you may have had, and any other relevant factors that may have affected your research productivity

Missing Data

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Section C - Research Proposal

Significance, Impact and Innovation of the Research

In approximately two A4 pages describe the research to be supported providing sufficient background for the aims of the project to be clear. This section should emphasise the significance, impact and innovation of the research.
Significance, Impact and Innovation of the Research In approximately two A4 pages describe the research to be supported providing sufficient background for the aims of the project to be clear. This section should emphasise the significance, impact and innovation of the research.

Relationship to National Research Priorities

National Research Priorities and Priority Goals
Water - a critical resource
A healthy start to life
Breakthrough science
Critical infrastructure

Relationship to NCRIS and Super Science Capabilities

NCRIS and Super Science Capabilities
Fabrication

National Benefit of the Research

In the context of the expected outcomes and impact of the research, outline in no more than 200 words the National Benefit of the Research to be supported and its relationship to the goals of the National Research Priorities, if relevant.
National Benefit of the Research In the context of the expected outcomes and impact of the research, outline in no more than 200 words the National Benefit of the Research to be supported and its relationship to the goals of the National Research Priorities, if relevant.

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Section D - Resource Requirements and Justification of Needs

Resource Requests

Service Units
Compute time allocations are made in Service Units (SU) which reflect both the time used and the priority at which it is used. For normal use, a Service Unit (SU) corresponds to one hour of elapsed time on one processor core of the system. Allocations are split into (up to) four quarterly sub-allocations. Allocations unused at the end of a quarter are lost, though consideration will be given to carrying unused allocations forward and adjusting quarterly allocations in some circumstances. Where applying at times outside of the regular call for proposals, the request should be for up to one year so as to bring the project into line with the normal January or July cycle.
Nearline Data
Data quantities are to be specified as the total archive data storage required in each of the quarters. For example if a total of 10 Gbyte of data is to be stored in the first of the 3 month periods and then effectively no files stored or removed, enter 10 in each of the fields.
Minimum Feasible**
Indicate the minimum allocations below which the project would not be feasible on the requested resource (show the total for over all the quarters - enter an integer value only)

Resources at NCI National Facility

Resource Jan-Mar 2013 Apr-Jun 2013 Jul-Sep 2013 Oct-Dec 2013 Minimum feasible**
NCI NF Fujitsu Primergy, Sun Constellation VAYU and SGI XE Cluster(SU) 1 2 3 5 6
NCI NF Nearline Data (GB) 20 20 20 20 20

Resources at iVEC

Resource Jan-Mar 2013 Apr-Jun 2013 Jul-Sep 2013 Oct-Dec 2013 Minimum feasible**
iVEC@Murdoch supercomputing cluster (SU) 0 0 0 0 0
iVEC Murdoch Data Storage (GB) 0 0 0 0 0
iVEC@UWA GPU-accelerated cluster (SU) 0 0 0 0 0

12 SU = 1 GPU hour on iVEC UWA Fornax computer

Resources at Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative

Resource Jan-Mar 2013 Apr-Jun 2013 Jul-Sep 2013 Oct-Dec 2013 Minimum feasible**
VLSCI Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer 0 0 0 0 0
VLSCI online storage (GB) 0 0 0 0 0
VLSCI nearline storage (GB) 0 0 0 0 0

Resources at NCI SF Interactive Visualisation

Resource Jan-Mar 2013 Apr-Jun 2013 Jul-Sep 2013 Oct-Dec 2013 Minimum feasible**
MASSIVE - NCI Specialsed Facility in Imaging and Visualisation 0 0 0 0 0
MASSIVE nearline storage (GB) 0 0 0 0 0

Resources at NCI SF Bioinformatics

Resource Jan-Mar 2013 Apr-Jun 2013 Jul-Sep 2013 Oct-Dec 2013 Minimum feasible**
NCI Specialised Facility in Bioinformatics compute 0 0 0 0 0
NCI SF Bioinformatics online storage (GB) 0 0 0 0 0
NCI SF Bioinformatics nearline storage (GB) 0 0 0 0 0

Please answer all the following

Justify the total amount of Time (System Units) requested

Explain your needs from a technical viewpoint, and in the context of the research objectives
Justify the total amount of Time (System Units) requested Explain your needs from a technical viewpoint, and in the context of the research objectives

Justify the total amount of Data Storage requested

Explain your needs from a technical viewpoint, and in the context of the research objectives
Justify the total amount of Data Storage requested Explain your needs from a technical viewpoint, and in the context of the research objectives

Indicate why access to the applied for systems is critical to your work

Characterise this in terms of a need for any of the following: distributed computation, large memory, large disk, specific software, specific datasets or any other requirement (to be specified).
Indicate why access to the applied for systems is critical to your work Characterise this in terms of a need for any of the following: distributed computation, large memory, large disk, specific software, specific datasets or any other requirement (to be specified).

Describe the algorithms used, and the types of calculations involved

If you primarily use package software, note that here.
Describe the algorithms used, and the types of calculations involved If you primarily use package software, note that here.

Describe the nature of your jobs - Distributed vs Single CPU vs GPU

Please answer the questions where appropriate for your project
Does your project involve truly distributed computation which needs both multiple nodes and the fast interconnect of the machine? If so, please provide
Describe the nature of your jobs - Distributed vs Single CPU vs GPU Please answer the questions where appropriate for your project

Does your project involve truly distributed computation which needs both multiple nodes and the fast interconnect of the machine? If so, please provide

a table of walltime vs the number of processors used for a typical problem as evidence that the problem scales efficiently with processor number, up to the number intended to be used. insert 

 before, and
after the table to maintain formatting. details of the extent of data transfer between nodes in the form of number of MPI calls/sec and Mbytes/sec transferred.

Does your project require the running of a large number of single processor jobs (or parallel jobs which could alternatively be run as an ensemble of single processor jobs)? Please note that for ease of system management and optimum throughput, ensemble jobs are better to be run as a number of single processor jobs.

Does your project require the running of a large number of single processor jobs (or parallel jobs which could alternatively be run as an ensemble of single processor jobs)? Please note that for ease of system management and optimum throughput, ensemble jobs are better to be run as a number of single processor jobs.

If you are using MASSIVE what proportion of your work will require interactive access? Note that interactive access needs to booked in advance, and you either use it at the nominated time, or you lose it.

If you are using MASSIVE what proportion of your work will require interactive access? Note that interactive access needs to booked in advance, and you either use it at the nominated time, or you lose it.

Special Software Requirements

Name any third-party software not currently available on the facility that is essential to the project. The software request form must be completed to supply us with the full details of such software.
Special Software Requirements Name any third-party software not currently available on the facility that is essential to the project. The software request form must be completed to supply us with the full details of such software.

Other Special Requirements

These may include extraordinary disk requirements for running jobs, need for high priority etc. Note that substantial usage at high priority without explanation may result in an adjustment to unused and future allocations.
Other Special Requirements These may include extraordinary disk requirements for running jobs, need for high priority etc. Note that substantial usage at high priority without explanation may result in an adjustment to unused and future allocations.

If you require any additional assistance that would help achieve better performance on the systems please provide details here. Also enter any aspects of the system configuration or management that is adversely affecting your work.

If you require any additional assistance that would help achieve better performance on the systems please provide details here. Also enter any aspects of the system configuration or management that is adversely affecting your work.

Table of Contents

  1. - Administrative Summary
    1. Project Title
    2. Details of Researchers
    3. Anticipated Percentage Usages per Organisation
    4. ANZSRC Research Classifications
    5. Proposal Summary
    6. Related Projects
    7. Academic Referees
  2. - Publications and Research Funding
    1. Summary of Research Support
    2. Research Track Record of each Chief Investigator
  3. - Research Proposal
    1. Significance, Impact and Innovation of the Research
    2. Relationship to National Research Priorities
    3. Relationship to NCRIS and Super Science Capabilities
    4. National Benefit of the Research
  4. - Resource Requirements and Justification of Needs
    1. Resource Requests
    2. Justify the total amount of Time (System Units) requested
    3. Justify the total amount of Data Storage requested
    4. Indicate why access to the applied for systems is critical to your work
    5. Describe the algorithms used, and the types of calculations involved
    6. Describe the nature of your jobs - Distributed vs Single CPU vs GPU
    7. Special Software Requirements
    8. Other Special Requirements

Certifications

Lead Chief Investigator
The Lead Chief Investigator signing below agrees that they and project team members nominated by them will abide by the acceptable use policies for the NCMAS which is given at http://ncmas.nci.org.au/policies/.

Signature:............................................................................       Date:.............................
(Signature of the Lead Chief Investigator who must be a staff member of an Australian public sector research institution)
Authorised Officer of Institution
The person signing below must authorise that support is available at the Institution for the Lead Chief Investigator to make use of the NCMAS for this project.

Signature:............................................................................       Date:.............................
(Signature of an authorised officer (e.g. head of department or similar) of the Australian public sector research institution employing the Lead Chief Investigator)

Name:....................................................       Position:.....................................................
(Authorised Officer of Institution Name and Official Position)

 

Disclaimer
While every effort will be made to fully support projects granted allocations, as a result of scheduling, networking and other capacity issues, it cannot be guaranteed that allocations made can be fully utilised.

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