The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), which provides high-performance computing and data storage resources to DOE researchers, will soon be accepting applications for allocating resources for FY2000.
NERSC will begin accepting applications for the coming fiscal year on June 1, 1999. Applications will be accepted through Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1999. Award letters will be sent out on Sept. 20, 1999, and awarded allocations will take effect Oct. 1, 1999.
The allocations process, called ERCAP (Energy Research Computing Allocation
Process), is entirely web-based and applications must be submitted using a
web-based form. For more information on ERCAP, visit the web site at http://ercap.nersc.gov.
Earlier this year, DOE announced a new policy of broader scientific peer
review for the use of NERSC, the Department’s largest unclassified scientific
computing facility. As proposals are submitted, they will be subjected to peer
review to evaluate the quality of science, how well the proposed research is
aligned with the mission of DOE's Office of Science, and the readiness of the
specific application and applicant to fully utilize the computing resources
being requested.
Besides the new IBM RS/6000 SP system, NERSC also operates a 677-processor Cray T3E-900 supercomputer. Additionally, for FY2000, NERSC expects to allocate time on 64 SGI/Cray SV1 processors and 32 SGI/Cray J90se processors. The center also provides archival data storage
in its High Performance Storage System (HPSS) with a total capacity of 300 terabytes. For more information about the NERSC High Performance Computing Facility, visit the website at http://hpcf.nersc.gov.
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