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Eligibility Restriction: A Faculty who already has a startup or research allocation is not eligible for Trial Allocations. Trial Allocations are not a short term allocation block while waiting for the next allocation review cycle.
StartUp
Startup Allocations are small allocation requests (<25K). A faculty can be a PI or collaborator on only one active Startup Allocation at any time.
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- Startup allocations that are expended within 6 months of the start date will be denied. PIs of such accounts will need to request a Research Allocation as described below.
- Any user can be associated with only 2 startup allocations at any given time.
- The RCARC may request additional information if the StartUp Allocation request contains users who are already associated with a StartUp Allocation.
- Requests to add existing users who have a StartUp Allocation after approval will automatically trigger a review by RCARC.
Education
Developing the next generation workforce is a cornerstone of NSF campus research cyberinfrastructure grants. Use of Hawk for education - course work and workshops, is strongly encouraged.
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We will however entertain reasonable requests for reservations or dedicated access to resources during the final week of course or for the duration of a workshop (max 1 week).
Please fill out a request and provide the following information.
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Request Window: Research Allocations can be submitted during a one-month window every six months. Tentatively, there will be two allocation cycles with start dates of Jan 1 and Jul 1. Allocation window would be open two months prior to the start dates i.e. Nov 1 and May 1 respectively. (overlaps with XSEDE cycle 12/15-1/15 and 10/15-11/15).
Allocation Review: RCARC will review and approve allocations following the deadline but prior to the start of the allocation cycle i.e. in Dec and June every year. Please note that the RCARC is not reviewing your research project for its content or quality. The RCARC is only evaluating whether your request for resources match your proposed work. You cannot request 100K SUs when you need to run 10 jobs for 200 hours on 10 CPUs i.e. 2000 SUs each, 20K max. Depending on the total amount of SUs requested and the amount available, RCARC may approve your request with a reduced amount.
Renewal: Research allocations can be renewed annually. Renewals require a progress report of prior award and other information described in item 4 of requirements above.
Renewals that do not include a progress report will be reviewed and awarded but allocations will be available only after submission of the progress report. If a progress report is not provided within a month of the start date i.e. Feb 1 or Aug 1 depending on the cycle, then the allocation award will be withdrawn and all future requests will be declined in the absence of a progress report. E.g. John Doe requested a renewal of research allocation of 200K SUs that did not include a progress report. The RCARC will review the request and award an allocation subject to submission and review of the progress report within a month, say Jan 31. John and his collaborators do not have access to the 200K SUs until the report is submitted. If by Jan 31, the report is not submitted, then the 200K SU is returned to the RCARC, who can distribute at their discretion. On June 30, John’s other allocation, 100K, expires and he submits his renewal package by the May 31 deadline. If this renewal request does not contain the progress report for both the allocations, his renewal request will not be reviewed.
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Storage
Each HPC PI will be provided with a 1TB storage space that will provide home directory space of all accounts sponsored by that PI. PIs who have a large group can request a large space for home storage such that 1TB is provided for every 5 active users. It is the PI's responsibility to move inactive user's data to a backup storage solution and make room for active users. PI's who do not have an active allocation and have not applied for an allocation within 6 months of the expiry of the previous award will have the 1TB storage withdrawn with all data deleted with no backups. This space will be provided from the 40TB DDF. PIs who unnecessarily add users to the allocation to request more storage space will be restricted to 1TB space in subsequent years unless approved by RCARC.
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Renewal: Storage allocations can be renewed annually. Renewals require a progress report of prior award and other information described in item 6 of requirements above.