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Research Computing providing a webinar on writing an allocation proposal on Wednesday, Dec 1 at 2PM. |
Effective October 1, 2020, there is no charge to use Lehigh's HPC resources - Sol and Hawk. Instead, Faculty are required to submit an allocation proposal that will be reviewed by a faculty driven Research Computing Allocation Review Committee (RCARC). The RCARC has representation from all five Colleges to ensure each College is involved in the decision making process to distribute HPC resources.
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Requirements: Faculty requesting a StartUp Allocation should provide a short abstract (min 500 words, 1 page max) with the description of the work they wish to accomplish and the amount of computing time requested.
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Members of the allocation committee may not be experts in your field of research. Please focus on the computational aspects rather than technical aspects of the work you wish to accomplish. This will allow the committee to understand your computational needs. Technical details should be written for an audience with broad expertise in computation-based research, but little to no expertise in your specific field of study. Only include sufficient technical details to aid the allocation committee in understanding how the allocation requested meets your computational needs. |
Request Window: StartUp Allocations can be requested any time during the year and will be approved within 3-4 weeks of submission (completed).
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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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