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Project Application

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Principal Investigator Information

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Project Information

How does this project fit within the overall strategic goals of NOAA?

Select all that apply:
1. Advancing Short-Term Warning and Forecast Services
2. Implementing Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasts
3. Assessing/Predicting Decadal to Centennial Change
4. Promotion of Safe Navigation
5. Building Sustainable Fisheries
6. Recovering Protected Species
7. Sustainment of Healthy Coastal Ecosystems
8. Not Sure
Elaborate on why this project is applicable to the NOAA mission:
What will be the outcome of this project (e.g., data for researchers and/or customers, formal scientific publications, benchmarking data)?
Please list any previous publications pertinent to this project
Is this a funded project?
If so, please list the funding amount and sponsoring agency or agencies:

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Experience:

Has your primary code been run in a distributed memory computing environment (e.g. Linux Cluster, Cray T3E, IBM SP2) before?
Do you have other codes that you plan to use?
If the previous answer is yes, have the other codes been run in a distributed memory environment?
Do you have someone on your staff or have access to someone with experience in distributed memory (MPI) programming?
If yes, please identify the individual or group:

Applicability:

Please describe why other computing resources are inadequate or unavailable:
(NOTE: lack of funding for compute resources is a valid reason (but not necessarily sufficient) for needing access to HPCS.
Provide any additional information that you feel is relevant regarding the experience of the project team members and the applicability of your jobs on HPCS.

Job Behavior:

How will your job run? (Select One)
If realtime, please provide the number of runs per day and approximate times of job starts:
The amount of data per day that you expect to move between your facility and GSD (Mbytes/day)
Describe when and how you expect to move this data:
Is your institution on the Abilene network?
Is your institution located in the David Skaggs Research Center?
List visualization tools that you may find useful on a local visualization server at GSD. (Example: Vis5D, IDL, etc):

Resource Requirements

What is the amount of disk space you require for your project and/or the Mass Store System (MSS)?
Project usage - GBytes (Project directory will not be purged nor backed up)
MSS usage:
1. None
2. Tier 1 - 0.65 TBytes maximum
3. Tier 2 - 2 TBytes maximum
4. Tier 3 - 10 TBytes (or more)
5. If you are requesting Tier 2 or Tier 3, please provide justification:
CPU Hours per Month (# of CPUs x wall clock time x 30 days)
Provide a description of Node Hour usage if not using system on a daily basis
For the next four items, please enter information for resource requirements for this quarter as well as estimates for the next three quarters. If no information is entered for the "Estimate" columns, the current quarter requirements will be entered by default.
Number of running jobs:
1. Current
2. Estimate 1
3. Estimate 2
4. Estimate 3
Maximum Number of CPUs per job:
1. Current
2. Estimate 1
3. Estimate 2
4. Estimate 3
Maximum Number of CPUs in use:
1. Current
2. Estimate 1
3. Estimate 2
4. Estimate 3
Maximum wall clock time per job: (HH:MM)
1. Current
2. Estimate 1
3. Estimate 2
4. Estimate 3
Provide any information that you feel is relevant regarding the requirements, including a brief explanation of the estimated requirements:

Submit Form

Please contact Lee Cohen at 303-497-7362 if you have any questions and/or problems in completing this form.