Meeting today
The next preproposal meeting for researchers interested in using the Roadrunner computing system for high-impact science and engineering projects is from 10:30 to 11:30 this morning in the Computer Science for High-Performance Computing (CCS-1) Conference Room (SM 200, Room 116) at Technical Area 3.
The call for proposals is part of Roadrunner stabilization activities, and provides an unprecedented opportunity for Laboratory researchers to get access to the Roadrunner accelerated system for a period of approximately four months in early 2009.
The meeting is open to all Laboratory staff members.
Institutional Computing and the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program Office are requesting proposals from Laboratory researchers for science and engineering projects that can take advantage of Roadrunner’s capabilities during the four-month period. Proposed projects should
• Address a problem with significant impact in science or engineering;
• Describe a plan to effectively use a considerable fraction (greater than 10 percent) of the total available computing resources;
• Have the ability to complete relevant simulations during the four-month period.
Proposals also should describe a plan for moving a project’s base computer code to Roadrunner.
Roadrunner is a hybrid computing system comprised of 18 connected units with nearly 13,000 processors connected with AMD Operteron cores. Peak performance of the Roadrunner system will be about 1.4 petaflop/s with more than 80 terabytes of memory. Detailed information on the Roadrunner system and architecture is available here.
More information about today’s meeting is available from the Institutional Computing Web Site, and specific information about the call for proposals using the Roadrunner system are here.
