Hello, A yearly allocation for the LCRC cluster has been requested with the following updated information: Submitter/PI: Jeff Larson Project Name: COMPASSOPT Division: MCS Project title: Numerical Optimization of the Synergia2 particle accelerator simulations Associated funding: Office of Science — High Energy Physics and Advanced Scientific Computing Research Other Systems: MCS compute nodes (The project also has a 2014 INCITE allocation) Science: Particle accelerators are critical to scientific discovery, both nationally and worldwide. The development and optimization of accelerators are essential for advancing our understanding of the fundamental properties of matter, energy, space and time. As a part of the ComPASS project, state-of-the-art particle accelerator simulators have been developed. Project description: We will continue to benchmark and test recently implemented multi-scale, multi-start derivative-free optimization routines on Synergia2 particle accelerator simulations in order to direct the design of future accelerators. The software that we will require is python (including the latest version of mpi4py), mpich2, and libraries called by Synergia2 (e.g., BOOST, HDF5). Our optimization routine employs an asynchronous master/slave paradigm. Initial runs of our code on desktop computers have shown promising speed-up times through the range of slaves we will be using on Fusion. Doubling slaves results in a 49%-50% decrease in computational time. Still, much of the performance will depend on how efficient Synergia2 uses the resources provided to it. ComPASS codes obtain good scalability and parallel performance efficiency to several tens of thousands of processors. There will be two project members, Jeffrey Larson and Stefan Wild. We expect to need a much la rger allocation of compute hours starting in FY15, but this initial allocation will allow us to ensure the continued scalability of our optimization routines. Industry partnership: Project URL: http://compass.fnal.gov Current FY Hours Used: undetermined amount New FY Requested allocation: 40000 Q1: 10000 Q2: 10000 Q3: 10000 Q4: 10000 Justification: Storage requirements: Thank You, The LCRC Accounts System