Project Request


INSTRUCTIONS:

This form is to be used by the principal investigator (PI) to request a new project on the NCCS resources.

  1. Complete the Principal Investigator's Agreement and fax it to 865-241-4011.
  2. Fill in all applicable information.
  3. Click on "submit" button at bottom of this page to submit your application.
  4. After you've requested a project, what happens next?
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If you want an account on an existing NCCS project, please apply using the NCCS Join an Existing Project application form.

Direct any questions to the NCCS User Assistance Center.

Personal Information
* Title: Dr. Mr. Ms. Mrs. Miss
* First name:
* Last name:
Middle name:
Suffix (Sr. Jr. III, etc.):
* Email:
* Phone:
* Current (or requested) username:

Citizenship Status
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* Countries of Citizenship:
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Mailing Address
* Institution:
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* Street Address:
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Institution Information
* Institution Type:     DOE     Government (not DOE)     University     Industry
Foreign    Other
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If your institution is not in the above list, or you are employed by additional institutions, please specify:

Project Information

* Project Investigators (PI):

* Project Name:

* Choose the primary source(s) of the project's funding


If you have another primary source of funding...


* Select the most appropriate research area/science category for this project:


Project Requirements to no longer have FY07

* Indicate the number of CPU hours requested on each system:

Jaguar:
Phoenix:
IBM Blue Gene/P (Eugene):
Visualization Cluster (Lens):
Power Wall (Everest):


Description of Research

* Research Objectives: Describe the proposed research, including its goals and the theoretical and computational methods it employs. Proposals will be evaluated on both scientific and computational merit.

* Significance of Research: Place the proposed research in the context of competing work in your discipline. In addition, explain what scientific advance you expect to be enabled by a Director's Discretion award that justifies an allocation of large-scale resources.


* Computational Approach: List each application software package to be used in the project proosal, including analysis packages.

Software Package Name Open Source? Export Controlled? *ECCN

* Software Information: For each of the major application codes you intend to use for this project,describe the computational techniques that you will use. Include:

  • Programming languages, libraries, and other software used
  • Description of the underlying mathematical formulation (e.g., ODE, PDE).
  • Algorithms and numerical techniques employed (e.g.,finite element, iterative solver).
  • Parallel programming system used (e.g., MPI, OpenMP, "embarrassingly" parallel).
  • Description of the role collaborative analysis/visualization plays in your discovery process; Identify any current bottlenecks in your analysis.

Application Parallel Performance: Provide direct evidence, including supporting quantitative data, for your project's application parallel performance. Supporting quantitative data should be provided in either tabular or graphical form, or both; also a speedup curve should be supplied for strong scaling examples. If the performance data indicates less than 50% efficiency on less than 256 nodes, please delineate the path forward for achieving greater performance on much larger scale simulations with the requested NCCS resources. Without this data, application readiness cannot be adequately ascertained and hence awarding this NCCS allocation request will be placed in jeopardy. See Example

I/O Requirements:

Restart I/O: Describe your I/O requirements for program restart. Include a list the types of files you write out for program restarts, i.e. MPI/IO, raw binary, serial from all processors, HDF5, etc. and the following quantitative information: how much restart data you write out; how many processors write-out restart data; how much memory your job takes per processor; the size of a single restart dump, etc.

Analysis I/O: Describe your I/O requirements for analysis. Include a list of the types of files you write out for analysis, i.e. HDF5, NetCDF, PHDF5, PnetCDF; size of analysis dump; amount and type of data read into your analysis program, etc.
Data Transfer I/O: What portion of your data do you transfer to your home institution?
Archival I/O: What portion of your data will you archive at the NCCS?

Proprietary and Sensitive Information

* Does this project generate publishable data?
Yes   No

* Does this project use or generate proprietary data?
Yes   No

* Does this project use or generate sensitive or restricted information?
Yes   No


Export Control

The following questions are provided to determine whether research associated with a Director's Discretion proposal may be export controlled. Responding to these questions can facilitate - but not substitute for - any export control review required for this proposal.

* Does the proposed project involve any of the following areas?
Yes   No
  • Military, Space Craft, Satellites, Missles, and associated hardware, software or technical data?
  • Nuclear Reactors & Components, Nuclear Material Enrichment Equipment, Components (Trigger List) and associated hardware, software or technical data?
  • Encryption about 128 bit software (source & object code)?
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction or their precursors (nuclear, chemical, & biological)?
* Does the proposed project use and/or create proprietary information, intellectual property, licensing, or will utilize information in any of these categories in pursuit of the project objectives?
Yes   No

* Are the proposed project and its intended subject matter deliverables considered Fundamental Research or Publicly Available Information as under National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 189?
Yes   No

Comments or Questions?

By submitting this application, I certify that the information I have provided is accurate and complete.