OLCF Director Discretion Project Application

Project Application

Please note that DD projects are not intended to be for production computing in any sense. The NCCS DD program is designed to give new researchers an opportunity to carry out a program of scalability and productivity enhancements to their scientific codes. Any requests that fail to outline such a program, or requests that are for production computing at less-than leadership scale (i.e. proposals designed simply to gain access to more resources than the PI currently has access to) will likely be immediately rejected.

INSTRUCTIONS:

This form is to be used by the Principal Investigator (PI) to request a new project using OLCF resources.

PIs and/or co-PIs with active or pending INCITE projects cannot apply for a new Director’s Discretion project.
1. Complete the Principal Investigator's Agreement or Industry Principal Investigator's Agreement (for industry PIs) and fax it to 865-241-4011 or email it to accounts@ccs.ornl.gov.
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?
5. * indicates required fields
If you want an account on an existing project, please apply using the Account Request application form.

Direct any questions to the User Assistance Center.
First Things First...
Computing Policy*
By submitting this application, I agree that I have read and will abide by the posted Computing Policy.
- Yes
Storage Policy*
By submitting this application, I agree that I have read and will abide by the Storage Policy.
- Yes
Cyber Security Policy*
By submitting this application, I agree that I have read and will abide by the Cyber Security Training Document.
- Yes
Why are you applying for this discretionary allocation award at the OLCF? *
How did you hear about the OLCF and this discretionary allocation award process?*
If awarded time, do you agree to provide periodic updates of research accomplishments?*
- Yes
- No
Personal Information
Title*
First Name*
Last Name*
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Current (or requested) Username*
300 - 800 word bio characterizing HPC experience*
Citizenship Status
Citizenship Status*
- U.S. Citizen
- Lawful Permanent Resident(LPR)
- Other
Countries of Citizenship*
Birth Country*
Mailing Address
Institution*
Address*
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Institution Type*
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- Goverment (not DOE)
- University
- Industry
- Foreign
- Other
DOE*
Government*
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Industries*
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Please specify your employer*
Project Information
Project Investigators (PI)*
Project Name*
Project references and peer reviews*
- Give evidence for this work having been or currently undergoing peer review (ex. refereed journal articles derived from this work, support from leaders in the field, etc.)
- Provide affirmation of support (name of program manager, grant number, etc.)
Project Funding*
Please select the primary source(s) of the project's funding from this list
Other source(s) of funding?
Research area/science category*
Please select the most appropriate research area/science category for this project
Have you, as a PI, had an OLCF project during the past 12 months?*
- Yes
- No
Project ID or Name of previous project*
Is this a continuation of work on your previous project?*
- Yes
- No
Project Requirements
CPU hours reqeusted on each system
Please indicate the number of cpu hours requested on each system. Access to system includes HPSS access.
Jaguar (XT5)
Note: range up to 1M hours
Data Analysis Cluster (Lens)
Power Wall (Everest)
Smoky
HPSS (Only Access)
- Yes
*
Project allocations typically range up to 1,000,000 processor hours. Requests on the order of a million hours require substantial justification; the OLCF expects to award a limited number of such projects annually. Provide justification if multiple resources are requested.
Project Role*
Identify a project role below that aligns with the objectives of this allocation request. Please note that production computing requests are not typically granted through the Director's Discretion program.
- Leadership computing preparation (6-12 month duration)
  - For exploratory pilot projects and potential next-generation INCITE projects.
- Application performance and data analytics (6 month duration)
  - These allocations are typically granted on a leadership platform.
  - For projects typified by computer science support and R&D focused on maximizing scientific application efficiency and productivity on leadership computing platforms. Application performance benchmarking, analysis, modeling, and scaling studies. End-to-end workflow, visualization, data analytics.
- INCITE Scaling (1-3 month duration)
  - For projects needing to complete application performance benchmarking, analysis, modeling, and/or scaling studies in preparation of an INCITE proposal.
Requested Project Duration?*
(up to 12 months)
Justification*
Please provide justification for the requested project duration.
What type of OLCF support will this project benefit the most from?*
- Fundamental user assistance porting, scripting, and understanding system environments
- In-depth scientific computing (ex. code evolution, collaboration)
- Visualization support for data analysis
Description of Research
NOTE: If you would like to submit additional tables/graphics/text for description of research, please send them to accounts@ccs.ornl.gov.
Research Objectives:*
Describe the proposed research, including its goals and the theoretical and computational methods it employs, concisely but to the extent that reviewers can understand its intent. Proposals will be evaluated on both scientific and computational merit.
Identify project milestones*
(including end-of-project goals): Achievement of milestones will determine the level of continuing support (allocation time, etc.) Projects without well defined milestones will be rejected.
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. For industrial users, also place proposed research in context of your business and to the importance to your business.
Software Information:*
List each application software package to be used in the project proposal, including analysis packages.
Software Package Name Open Source or Export Controlled? Export Classification Number
Computational Approach:*
For each of the major application codes you intend to use for this project, describe the computational techniques that you will use. Include:
- Application code name.
- 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
Job Characterization: *
NOTE: The Primary goal of the Director's Discretion program is leadership computing preparation. Leadership utilization should use at least 20% of the resource. How will you get to 20%?
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 OLCF resources. Without this data, application readiness cannot be adequately ascertained. See Example
Restart I/O:*
Given the nature of leadership computing, if your application does not have checkpoint/restart, your first goal is to address this issue. Describe your I/O requirements for checkpoint/restart. Please indicate the format/method used for restarts (e.g. MPI/IO, raw binary, serial from all processors, HDF5, etc) and provide 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, frequency, 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 OLCF?
Proprietary and Sensitive Information
Does this project generate publishable data? *
- Yes
- No
Does this project use or generate proprietary data?*
proprietary definition
- 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? *
- Military, Space Craft, Satellites, Missiles, 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)?
- Yes
- No
Does the proposed project use and/or create proprietary information, intellectual property, licensing, or will utilize controlled technology 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 and Questions
Comments or Questions?*
Accurate and Complete*
- By submitting this application, I certify that the information I have provided is accurate and complete.

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OLCF Director Discretion Project Application

Project Application

INSTRUCTIONS:

First Things First...

Personal Information

Citizenship Status

Mailing Address

Section Break

Project Information

Project Requirements

CPU hours reqeusted on each system

Description of Research

Proprietary and Sensitive Information

Export Control

Comments and Questions