I wonder if he would like to start now, instead of April 1. Ray On 3/6/14 11:20 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 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: Jeff Larson Applicant's institution: ANL Applicant's division: MCS Project Name: COMPASSOPT 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 are looking to use 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 larger allocation of compute hours starting in FY15, but this initial allocation will allow us to ensure the continued scalability of our optimization routines.

Project URL: http://compass.fnal.gov Requested allocation: 18000 Q1: 0 Q2: 0 Q3: 8000 Q4: 10000 Justification:

The requester has used undetermined amount 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:

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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