National Center for Computational Sciences

The DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) is accepting applications for computer time at the DOE’s premiere high-performance computing centers for high-risk, high-payoff simulations in areas directly related to the Department’s energy mission.

The ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is open to researchers from national laboratories, academia and industry.  Proposals are to be submitted directly to the ASCR office (ALCC@science.doe.gov) and should reflect the need for extremely large-scale computing resources.

Jaguar is a premier computing system. With more than 224,000 processors, 300 terabytes of system memory, and a peak performance of 2.3 petaflops (2.3 quadrillion calculations per second), it is the world’s fastest supercomputer.
The ALCC program allocates up to 30% of the computational resources at NERSC and the Leadership Computing Facilities at Argonne and Oak Ridge for special situations of interest to the Department with an emphasis on high-risk, high-payoff simulations in areas directly related to the DOE’s energy mission in areas such as advancing the clean energy agenda, understanding the Earth’s climate, preparing for national emergencies, or for broadening the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.

Submission to the 2010 ALCC will require a reviewable proposal that includes an abstract; identification of the computational resources requested, including the number of processor hours needed; a narrative of no longer than 15 pages describing the proposed research, computational approach code, including scaling studies; identification of funding source to support this work, CV of the PI and a bibliography.

For details, see http://sc.doe.gov/ascr/Facilities/ALCC.html. Contact Doug Kothe, OLCF Director of Science, if you have questions. For help with the proposal process or additional questions, please contact help@nccs.gov.