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FW: [lcrc-pi] FINAL REMINDER: LCRC Fusion project allocation proposals due TODAY
by Bair, Raymond A. 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

------ Forwarded Message From: Ed Berger <berger(a)anl.gov> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:21:41 -0600 To: "Valdes, John P." <valdes(a)mcs.anl.gov> Cc: Raymond Bair <rbair(a)anl.gov> Subject: Re: [lcrc-pi] FINAL REMINDER: LCRC Fusion project allocation proposals due TODAY Dear John, I let my Collider Physics project allocation lapse because I did not know as of last September that we might be able to make good use of Fusion resources. Now I know. Is it possible to resuscitate the project or must I start from scratch? I also wish to add a collaborator, Seth Quackenbush, a theory postdoc here: squackenbush(a)hep.anl.gov. Please let me know. Thanks, Ed On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, John Valdes wrote: > Final Reminder: LCRC Project Renewals are due today. To those who > have already submitted a renewal request, thank you. To those who > haven't, please submit a renewal request by the end of the day today > using the instructions below if you want to continue your project > during the next fiscal year (FY11, from Oct 1, 2010 through Sep 30, > 2011). Any time left in your project at the end of this fiscal year > (Sep 30) will NOT be carried into the next FY. If you do not wish to > continue your project during FY11, you needn't do anything; we will > close all projects for which a renewal was not submitted. > > Thank you. > > LCRC Staff > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dear LCRC Project PI, > > It is time to submit new project requests and renewals for time on > the LCRC cluster, Fusion. > > The project submission deadline is September 17. > > PIs submitting requests totaling 1,000,000 core-hours or more will be asked > to make a short presentation to the Allocations Committee, the afternoon of > Sept. 24. > > When requesting time for Fusion, please note that Fusion allocations > are in units of core-hours. On Fusion, 1 node-hour = 8 core-hours > since each node has 8 cores. > > To request a new project or to renew your existing project, please use > the forms on the LCRC Accounts webpage. For NEW project requests, > please use the link at: > > https://accounts.lcrc.anl.gov/new-project.php > > For project RENEWAL, please go to the Projects page at: > > https://accounts.lcrc.anl.gov/projects.php > > and click on the name of the project which you'll be renewing from the > list that appears. This will take you to the individual project's > page, where you should click on the "Project Renewal Request Form" > link given at the top of the page. A form will then appear with > places to enter the project's data. You will need to enter an updated > project description highlighting your plans for the FY11, and an > allocation request with the desired amount for FY11. Please take the > time to update any other information which might have changed. Once > all the data is correct and complete, press the 'Submit Renewal' > button at the bottom. You will then be returned to the individual > project page with a message at the top indicating that the renewal > request was successfully sent. If you do not see that message, please > send email to support(a)lcrc.anl.gov with the name of the project and > the date and time that you requested the renewal. > > Once your new project request or project renewal is submitted, the > LCRC Allocations Committee will review your request. > > If you have any questions, please send them to support(a)lcrc.anl.gov. > > Thank you, > > The LCRC Staff ------ End of Forwarded Message

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[LCRC Accounts] Project Request: parvis
by accounts＠lcrc.anl.gov 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hello, A new project on the LCRC cluster has been requested. Please forward the information on to the LCRC Allocation sub-committee. Applicant's name: Robert Jacob Applicant's institution: ANL Applicant's division: MCS Project Name: parvis Project title: Parallel Analysis Tools for Ultra-Large Climate Data Sets Associated funding: DOE BER Other Systems: NERSC Science: Like many scientific applications, climate models rely on numerical methods to solve their equations. But insights about the simulated climate are revealed only after performing additional calculations on several years to decades of the multivariate, multidimensional time series output by the climate model. The tools currently used to perform the climate data analysis and visualization (DAV) are serial and can no longer handle the data sizes being generated. We will be developing a new parallel version of a widely used climate DAV system called NCL which will speed up the climate science workflow for researchers throughout the community. Project description: NCL (the NCAR Command Language) is an interpreted scripting language that allows Matlab-like operations on arrays, can read many climate and weather data formats and provides special functions for plotting climate and weather quantities over maps of the earth. NCL produces publication-quality output. To parallelize NCL, we will use two existing parallel libraries. MOAB, the Mesh Oriented Database, contains datatypes and methods for representing unstructured grids in parallel. Intrepid is part of the Trilinos system and is a library for computing operators acting on discretized fields. MOAB and Intrepid both use MPI for their parallelism and MOAB, Intrepid and NCL are written in C++. We will be developing new code to interface NCL with MOAB/Intrepid. Are goal is for a scalable DAV tool that can perform all I/O and calculation in parallel while still rending publication quality 2D plots. If we distribute the data evenly among processors in parallel, then all time-domain calculation will be embarrassingly parallel while most spatial calculation will need only nearest neighbor exchanges. Project URL: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/parvis Requested allocation: 20000 Justification: The requester has used 0 hours of their initial startup project. In addition to approving an initial amount, please specify a Category and Subcategory for this project. For a list of the current selection of approved categories, please see: https://wiki.lcrc.anl.gov/wiki/Processes/Categories Once the Allocation committee has approved the project, please go to the Project Management page to create it: https://accounts.lcrc.anl.gov/projects.php Thank You, The LCRC Accounts System

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Re: [allocations-admins] [LCRC Accounts] Project Request: power-grid-sim
by Bair, Raymond A. 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

We do not yet have a good category for this, so Other Eng Apps seems best. The best POC may be MIsun Min because of the strong connection to LANS. Ray Bair Chief Computational Scientist, CELS Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences Argonne National Laboratory, and The University of Chicago Sent from my iPad On Feb 7, 2011, at 5:55 PM, "John Valdes" <valdes(a)mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > New project request. Cat:subcat sounds like Engineering Apps and > either Transportation or Other Engineering (or maybe Env Sci)? If > approved, who should be POC (Shashi?), what priority (is this > lab-strategic?), and of course, what amount? > > John > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:19:12PM -0600, accounts(a)lcrc.anl.gov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> A new project on the LCRC cluster has been requested. Please forward >> the information on to the LCRC Allocation sub-committee. >> >> Applicant's name: Cong Liu >> Applicant's institution: ANL >> Applicant's division: DIS, MCS, ES >> Project Name: power-grid-sim >> Project title: Novel Power System Operations Methods for Wind-powered Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles >> Associated funding: LDRD, DOE-OE >> Other Systems: >> Science: In this project, the objective is to propose a novel power system operations method, namely a new stochastic unit commitment and contingency analysis, which can address the uncertainty and variability brought by wind and electric vehicles, while maintaining the stability and reliability of the system. The proposed method will make use of a unified high-performance parallel computing framework for solving the stochastic unit commitment problem as well as implementing contingency analysis. These capabilities can be used by system operators to manage the grid. It can also be applied in planning studies to assess the impact of high penetration of wind and PHEVs on the power system. >> Project description: The task will be seperated into two subtasks. >> >> 1.The biggest challenge of contingency analysis for bulk power systems is the limited computational capability for power flow optimization. Due to the nature of power flow computation, a thorough contingency analysis usually has to confront a brute-force enumeration of contingency scenarios. The number of scenarios is astronomically increased if multiple contingencies are taken into account at the same time (N-k). In addition, the extremely expanded scale of power systems also raises the computational cost for each single power flow run. Last but not least, there has been a need for near-real-time contingency analysis since off-line studies cannot reflect the accurate system conditions due to the mismatch between the real operating states and presumed conditions. However, taking advantage of modern monitoring techniques such as phasor measurement units, contingency analysis tends to be implemented in real time. This kind of on-line contingency analysis calls for more advanc > ed >> algorithms to achieve reasonable accuracy in a timely manner. >> >> 2. Stochastic optimization problems are suitable for high-performance parallel computing architectures since a large fraction of the variables of the problem can be decoupled between uncertainty realizations or scenarios. In the unit commitment problem, the number of coupling variables is proportional to the number of power units to be committed and the scheduling horizon. In the particular case of wind power generation, the number of units can increase dramatically. This loosely coupled structure can be decomposed at the model level (outside the optimization solver). Model-level decomposition techniques such as Lagrangean relaxation and Benders decomposition are easy to implement through a parallel computing way. >> >> Six members from different divisions at Argonne will work on this project. The project will use open-source solver such as sparse linear system sover, CBC(mixed integer programming) to solve the problems >> >> >> Project URL: >> Requested allocation: 350000 >> Justification: >> >> >> The requester has used 0 hours of their initial startup project. >> >> In addition to approving an initial amount, please specify a Category >> and Subcategory for this project. For a list of the current selection >> of approved categories, please see: >> >> https://wiki.lcrc.anl.gov/wiki/Processes/Categories >> >> Once the Allocation committee has approved the project, please go to >> the Project Management page to create it: >> >> https://accounts.lcrc.anl.gov/projects.php >> >> Thank You, >> The LCRC Accounts System >> _______________________________________________ >> allocations-admins mailing list >> allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov >> https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins > _______________________________________________ > allocations-admins mailing list > allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov > https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins

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Re: [allocations-admins] Fwd: Re: Negative Allocation Balance
by Bair, Raymond A. 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

OK, lets proceed. Ray Bair Chief Computational Scientist, CELS Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences Argonne National Laboratory, and The University of Chicago Sent from my iPad On Feb 7, 2011, at 6:00 PM, "John Valdes" <valdes(a)mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 05:52:30PM -0600, Bair, Raymond A. wrote: >> >> If people do not use all the advance, do they lose it? > > I think the committee had decided yes, although there may be > exceptions. In either case, case, I warned Gary that any unused > balance might expire at midyear, but he estimated that they would > likely use the 100K by then, so that would be OK. > > John > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: John Valdes [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 05:41 PM >> To: allocations-admins(a)lcrc.anl.gov <allocations-admins(a)lcrc.anl.gov> >> Subject: Re: [allocations-admins] Fwd: Re: Negative Allocation Balance >> >> Gary was asking to have some of his 2nd half time forwarded for >> project dynamics. OK to advance 100K? >> >> John >> >> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:58:47PM -0600, John Valdes wrote: >>> Gary Leaf is running low on time on his project "dynamics" and asked >>> (in person) if we could advance 100K to his project. dynamics was >>> initially given 150K, most of which has been used in the past 2 >>> months. Gary said he has more runs to do as does a collaborator, and >>> between them they can probably use up the 100K by midyear. OK to >>> advance the 100K? >>> >>> John >>> >>> ----- Forwarded message from Gary Leaf <leaf(a)mcs.anl.gov> ----- >>> >>> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:35:01 -0600 (CST) >>> From: Gary Leaf <leaf(a)mcs.anl.gov> >>> To: John Valdes <valdes(a)mcs.anl.gov> >>> cc: Gary Leaf <leaf(a)mcs.anl.gov> >>> Subject: Re: Negative Allocation Balance >>> >>> John : What do I need to do in order to obtain >>> some positive balance? >>> >>> -2414%)./start.x >>> Notice: Project "dynamics" has a negative allocation balance; >>> your job will run at the lowest priority. >>> 508211.fmgt2.lcrc.anl.gov >>> (fusion-2415%) >>> >>> GKL >>> >>> ----- End forwarded message ----- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> allocations-admins mailing list >>> allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov >>> https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins >> _______________________________________________ >> allocations-admins mailing list >> allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov >> https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins > _______________________________________________ > allocations-admins mailing list > allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov > https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins

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Re: [allocations-admins] [LCRC Accounts] Project Allocation Request
by Bair, Raymond A. 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Please ask them what additional time they need between now and March 31. Ray Bair Chief Computational Scientist, CELS Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences Argonne National Laboratory, and The University of Chicago Sent from my iPad On Feb 7, 2011, at 5:45 PM, "John Valdes" <valdes(a)mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > A request for additional time. Note that this is Bob Olson's project, > RAST, not Folker's project, MG-RAST. Bob initially requested 50K for > FY11 which was granted in full. He's now requesting 250K more (see > the reason given under the "A specific reason has been given:" > heading). > > John > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:00:41PM -0600, accounts(a)lcrc.anl.gov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> A change in allocation has been requested: >> >> Requester: olson (Robert Olson) >> Project: RAST >> Title: Rapid Genome Annotation Technology >> Description: The RAST server is a genome annotation server developed by the bioinformatics group in MCS that was funded by the NIH Bioinformatics Resource Centers program. Throughout the history of the RAST server, we have made use only of the computational cluster that was funded by NIH for the purpose of hosting RAST. The configuration of this cluster was extensively hand-tuned for the purposes of running RAST. We believe the technology has reached a state of maturity such that we can develop the tools to enable the core computation to execute on a general-purpose scientific cluster like the LCRC. >> The real test of the success of this work will be to process real genomic data at scale. To this end we will work toward the integration of the RAST server (which provides facilities for the upload of new genomic data, the monitoring of the progress of the pipeline, and tools for online browsing and analysis of the completed annotation as well as downloads of the completed annotation in one of several export formats) with the LCRC as a computational backend. Initially this integration will be manually supervised, but we plan to investigate the technology for a more automated integration. >> Advances in the RAST technology have decreased the overall computational load on a per-genome basis, but the number of genomes submitted to RAST continues to rise. In 2010 we were successful at porting the core RAST computations to Fusion, but at the same time we brought the more highly optimized computation online on the core RAST server, highly reducing the requirement for the computational offload. In 2011, however, we envision the return for the need for this offload. We plan to further automate the integration of RAST and Fusion, as well as to leverage the Magellan cluster to engineer a family of computational offload facilities for RAST. >> The RAST project has also made effective use of the Fusion resource for other computations related to the curation of the protein families that underpin the RAST system. We perform detailed all-to-all analyses of the genomes within families of organisms (for instance, all sequenced genomes in the Brucella family of pathogenic bacteria) to determine the precise relationship between the genes in these organisms. Fusion is an excellent platform for such analyses, and we plan to continue such analyses on the other pathogen groups. >> >> >> Current: undetermined amount >> Justification: >> >> Requested: 250000 >> >> A specific reason has been given: >> We have been running a new large-scale computation to compute detailed similarities between the genomes in our database. We are using the results of this data to compute detailed correspondences between genomes in the database. This data, combined with the data we curate on the linkages between annotations and the published literature, will allow us to create highly consistent and accurate annotations across the entire genome database. >> >> The computation thus far has consumed around 40K core hours. It is roughly 18% through the total calculation (based on sequence counts), which gives us an estimate of about 224K core hours for the entire calculation. We are requesting an additional 250K core hours in order to complete this computation with some additional overage in the event our estimates are not completely accurate. >> >> This needs to be approved and the final allocation amount decided upon. >> >> Thank You, >> The LCRC Accounts System >> _______________________________________________ >> allocations-admins mailing list >> allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov >> https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins > _______________________________________________ > allocations-admins mailing list > allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov > https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins

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Re: [allocations-admins] [LCRC Accounts] Project Request: Globus-Online
by Bair, Raymond A. 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

I am leaning to SC=Grid. On 2/7/11 6:06 PM, "John Valdes" <valdes(a)mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:04:58PM -0600, John Valdes wrote: >> OK. Only there are corrections, I'll create this with Cat:subcat = > ^^^^ > Er, I meant "Unless" > >> A:Soft (or subcat could be Grid or Comp Sci maybe), PoC = Misun Min, >> and Priority = 4. >> >> John >> >> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:29:22PM -0600, Bair, Raymond A. wrote: >>> This looks reasonable, and both Jason and I have communicated with Raj about >>> the project. >>> >>> Ray >>> >>> On 2/7/11 12:12 PM, "accounts(a)lcrc.anl.gov" <accounts(a)lcrc.anl.gov> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> A new project on the LCRC cluster has been requested. Please forward >>>> the information on to the LCRC Allocation sub-committee. >>>> >>>> Applicant's name: Raj Kettimuthu >>>> Applicant's institution: ANL >>>> Applicant's division: MCS >>>> Project Name: Globus-Online >>>> Project title: Globus Online: Hosted Service for High-speed, >>>> Reliable, Secure Data Movement >>>> Associated funding: DOE >>>> Other Systems: ALCF, NERSC, PADS >>>> Science: The objective of this project is to make bulk >>>> data >>>> movement much easier for scientists. >>>> Project description: Globus Online delivers high-performance, reliable >>>> data movement services to end-users without requiring construction of >>>> custom, >>>> end-to-end systems. Implemented as an online, hosted service, Globus Online >>>> makes the same robust file transfer capabilities traditionally available >>>> only >>>> on the largest scale grid implementations, accessible to users that do not >>>> have the benefit of well-funded, technically savvy IT organizations. >>>> >>>> Software requirements: >>>> GridFTP server >>>> >>>> Expected number of project members: >>>> 5 >>>> Project URL: http://www.globusonline.org >>>> Requested allocation: 50000 >>>> Justification: >>>> >>>> >>>> The requester has used 0 hours of their initial startup project. >>>> >>>> In addition to approving an initial amount, please specify a Category >>>> and Subcategory for this project. For a list of the current selection >>>> of approved categories, please see: >>>> >>>> https://wiki.lcrc.anl.gov/wiki/Processes/Categories >>>> >>>> Once the Allocation committee has approved the project, please go to >>>> the Project Management page to create it: >>>> >>>> https://accounts.lcrc.anl.gov/projects.php >>>> >>>> Thank You, >>>> The LCRC Accounts System >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> allocations-admins mailing list >>>> allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov >>>> https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins >>> >>> >>> ----------------------------------------- >>> Ray Bair >>> Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences >>> Argonne National Laboratory >>> and the University of Chicago >>> TCS Building 240, Room 4126 >>> 9700 South Cass Avenue >>> Argonne, IL 60439 >>> email: rbair(at)anl.gov >>> Phone: (630)252-5751 >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> allocations-admins mailing list >> allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov >> https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins > _______________________________________________ > allocations-admins mailing list > allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov > https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins ----------------------------------------- Ray Bair Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Building 240, Room 4126 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 email: rbair(at)anl.gov Phone: (630)252-5751

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Re: [allocations-admins] [LCRC Accounts] Project Request: Globus-Online
by John Valdes 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:04:58PM -0600, John Valdes wrote: > OK. Only there are corrections, I'll create this with Cat:subcat = ^^^^ Er, I meant "Unless" > A:Soft (or subcat could be Grid or Comp Sci maybe), PoC = Misun Min, > and Priority = 4. > > John > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:29:22PM -0600, Bair, Raymond A. wrote: > > This looks reasonable, and both Jason and I have communicated with Raj about > > the project. > > > > Ray > > > > On 2/7/11 12:12 PM, "accounts(a)lcrc.anl.gov" <accounts(a)lcrc.anl.gov> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > A new project on the LCRC cluster has been requested. Please forward > > > the information on to the LCRC Allocation sub-committee. > > > > > > Applicant's name: Raj Kettimuthu > > > Applicant's institution: ANL > > > Applicant's division: MCS > > > Project Name: Globus-Online > > > Project title: Globus Online: Hosted Service for High-speed, > > > Reliable, Secure Data Movement > > > Associated funding: DOE > > > Other Systems: ALCF, NERSC, PADS > > > Science: The objective of this project is to make bulk data > > > movement much easier for scientists. > > > Project description: Globus Online delivers high-performance, reliable > > > data movement services to end-users without requiring construction of custom, > > > end-to-end systems. Implemented as an online, hosted service, Globus Online > > > makes the same robust file transfer capabilities traditionally available only > > > on the largest scale grid implementations, accessible to users that do not > > > have the benefit of well-funded, technically savvy IT organizations. > > > > > > Software requirements: > > > GridFTP server > > > > > > Expected number of project members: > > > 5 > > > Project URL: http://www.globusonline.org > > > Requested allocation: 50000 > > > Justification: > > > > > > > > > The requester has used 0 hours of their initial startup project. > > > > > > In addition to approving an initial amount, please specify a Category > > > and Subcategory for this project. For a list of the current selection > > > of approved categories, please see: > > > > > > https://wiki.lcrc.anl.gov/wiki/Processes/Categories > > > > > > Once the Allocation committee has approved the project, please go to > > > the Project Management page to create it: > > > > > > https://accounts.lcrc.anl.gov/projects.php > > > > > > Thank You, > > > The LCRC Accounts System > > > _______________________________________________ > > > allocations-admins mailing list > > > allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov > > > https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > Ray Bair > > Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences > > Argonne National Laboratory > > and the University of Chicago > > TCS Building 240, Room 4126 > > 9700 South Cass Avenue > > Argonne, IL 60439 > > email: rbair(at)anl.gov > > Phone: (630)252-5751 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > allocations-admins mailing list > allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov > https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins

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Re: [allocations-admins] [LCRC Accounts] Project Request: Globus-Online
by John Valdes 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

OK. Only there are corrections, I'll create this with Cat:subcat = A:Soft (or subcat could be Grid or Comp Sci maybe), PoC = Misun Min, and Priority = 4. John On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:29:22PM -0600, Bair, Raymond A. wrote: > This looks reasonable, and both Jason and I have communicated with Raj about > the project. > > Ray > > On 2/7/11 12:12 PM, "accounts(a)lcrc.anl.gov" <accounts(a)lcrc.anl.gov> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > A new project on the LCRC cluster has been requested. Please forward > > the information on to the LCRC Allocation sub-committee. > > > > Applicant's name: Raj Kettimuthu > > Applicant's institution: ANL > > Applicant's division: MCS > > Project Name: Globus-Online > > Project title: Globus Online: Hosted Service for High-speed, > > Reliable, Secure Data Movement > > Associated funding: DOE > > Other Systems: ALCF, NERSC, PADS > > Science: The objective of this project is to make bulk data > > movement much easier for scientists. > > Project description: Globus Online delivers high-performance, reliable > > data movement services to end-users without requiring construction of custom, > > end-to-end systems. Implemented as an online, hosted service, Globus Online > > makes the same robust file transfer capabilities traditionally available only > > on the largest scale grid implementations, accessible to users that do not > > have the benefit of well-funded, technically savvy IT organizations. > > > > Software requirements: > > GridFTP server > > > > Expected number of project members: > > 5 > > Project URL: http://www.globusonline.org > > Requested allocation: 50000 > > Justification: > > > > > > The requester has used 0 hours of their initial startup project. > > > > In addition to approving an initial amount, please specify a Category > > and Subcategory for this project. For a list of the current selection > > of approved categories, please see: > > > > https://wiki.lcrc.anl.gov/wiki/Processes/Categories > > > > Once the Allocation committee has approved the project, please go to > > the Project Management page to create it: > > > > https://accounts.lcrc.anl.gov/projects.php > > > > Thank You, > > The LCRC Accounts System > > _______________________________________________ > > allocations-admins mailing list > > allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov > > https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins > > > ----------------------------------------- > Ray Bair > Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences > Argonne National Laboratory > and the University of Chicago > TCS Building 240, Room 4126 > 9700 South Cass Avenue > Argonne, IL 60439 > email: rbair(at)anl.gov > Phone: (630)252-5751 > >

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Re: [allocations-admins] Fwd: Re: Negative Allocation Balance
by John Valdes 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 05:52:30PM -0600, Bair, Raymond A. wrote: > > If people do not use all the advance, do they lose it? I think the committee had decided yes, although there may be exceptions. In either case, case, I warned Gary that any unused balance might expire at midyear, but he estimated that they would likely use the 100K by then, so that would be OK. John > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Valdes [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 05:41 PM > To: allocations-admins(a)lcrc.anl.gov <allocations-admins(a)lcrc.anl.gov> > Subject: Re: [allocations-admins] Fwd: Re: Negative Allocation Balance > > Gary was asking to have some of his 2nd half time forwarded for > project dynamics. OK to advance 100K? > > John > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:58:47PM -0600, John Valdes wrote: > > Gary Leaf is running low on time on his project "dynamics" and asked > > (in person) if we could advance 100K to his project. dynamics was > > initially given 150K, most of which has been used in the past 2 > > months. Gary said he has more runs to do as does a collaborator, and > > between them they can probably use up the 100K by midyear. OK to > > advance the 100K? > > > > John > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Gary Leaf <leaf(a)mcs.anl.gov> ----- > > > > Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:35:01 -0600 (CST) > > From: Gary Leaf <leaf(a)mcs.anl.gov> > > To: John Valdes <valdes(a)mcs.anl.gov> > > cc: Gary Leaf <leaf(a)mcs.anl.gov> > > Subject: Re: Negative Allocation Balance > > > > John : What do I need to do in order to obtain > > some positive balance? > > > > -2414%)./start.x > > Notice: Project "dynamics" has a negative allocation balance; > > your job will run at the lowest priority. > > 508211.fmgt2.lcrc.anl.gov > > (fusion-2415%) > > > > GKL > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > _______________________________________________ > > allocations-admins mailing list > > allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov > > https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins > _______________________________________________ > allocations-admins mailing list > allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov > https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins

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Re: [allocations-admins] [LCRC Accounts] Project Request: power-grid-sim
by John Valdes 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

New project request. Cat:subcat sounds like Engineering Apps and either Transportation or Other Engineering (or maybe Env Sci)? If approved, who should be POC (Shashi?), what priority (is this lab-strategic?), and of course, what amount? John On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:19:12PM -0600, accounts(a)lcrc.anl.gov wrote: > Hello, > > A new project on the LCRC cluster has been requested. Please forward > the information on to the LCRC Allocation sub-committee. > > Applicant's name: Cong Liu > Applicant's institution: ANL > Applicant's division: DIS, MCS, ES > Project Name: power-grid-sim > Project title: Novel Power System Operations Methods for Wind-powered Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles > Associated funding: LDRD, DOE-OE > Other Systems: > Science: In this project, the objective is to propose a novel power system operations method, namely a new stochastic unit commitment and contingency analysis, which can address the uncertainty and variability brought by wind and electric vehicles, while maintaining the stability and reliability of the system. The proposed method will make use of a unified high-performance parallel computing framework for solving the stochastic unit commitment problem as well as implementing contingency analysis. These capabilities can be used by system operators to manage the grid. It can also be applied in planning studies to assess the impact of high penetration of wind and PHEVs on the power system. > Project description: The task will be seperated into two subtasks. > > 1.The biggest challenge of contingency analysis for bulk power systems is the limited computational capability for power flow optimization. Due to the nature of power flow computation, a thorough contingency analysis usually has to confront a brute-force enumeration of contingency scenarios. The number of scenarios is astronomically increased if multiple contingencies are taken into account at the same time (N-k). In addition, the extremely expanded scale of power systems also raises the computational cost for each single power flow run. Last but not least, there has been a need for near-real-time contingency analysis since off-line studies cannot reflect the accurate system conditions due to the mismatch between the real operating states and presumed conditions. However, taking advantage of modern monitoring techniques such as phasor measurement units, contingency analysis tends to be implemented in real time. This kind of on-line contingency analysis calls for more advanced > algorithms to achieve reasonable accuracy in a timely manner. > > 2. Stochastic optimization problems are suitable for high-performance parallel computing architectures since a large fraction of the variables of the problem can be decoupled between uncertainty realizations or scenarios. In the unit commitment problem, the number of coupling variables is proportional to the number of power units to be committed and the scheduling horizon. In the particular case of wind power generation, the number of units can increase dramatically. This loosely coupled structure can be decomposed at the model level (outside the optimization solver). Model-level decomposition techniques such as Lagrangean relaxation and Benders decomposition are easy to implement through a parallel computing way. > > Six members from different divisions at Argonne will work on this project. The project will use open-source solver such as sparse linear system sover, CBC(mixed integer programming) to solve the problems > > > Project URL: > Requested allocation: 350000 > Justification: > > > The requester has used 0 hours of their initial startup project. > > In addition to approving an initial amount, please specify a Category > and Subcategory for this project. For a list of the current selection > of approved categories, please see: > > https://wiki.lcrc.anl.gov/wiki/Processes/Categories > > Once the Allocation committee has approved the project, please go to > the Project Management page to create it: > > https://accounts.lcrc.anl.gov/projects.php > > Thank You, > The LCRC Accounts System > _______________________________________________ > allocations-admins mailing list > allocations-admins(a)lists.lcrc.anl.gov > https://lists.lcrc.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/allocations-admins

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