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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.

Accounts

Lehigh Faculty, research staff and students can request an account on Sol/Hawk. All account requests by staff and students need to be sponsored by a Lehigh Faculty and be associated with an active allocation. A Lehigh faculty with no active allocation, can request an account for themselves and members of their group while requesting an allocation as described below. Accounts that do not have an active allocation for 6 months will be disabled. 

Allocations

An allocation is a block of computing time measured in core-hours or service units or SUs (number of processing cores requested times the amount of wall-clock time used in hours). There is no charge to using Sol/Hawk  resources. However, users need to have an allocation to charge simulation time. There are different types of allocation depending on amount of SUs and storage.

Accounts

Lehigh Faculty, research staff and students can request an account on Sol/Hawk. All account requests by staff and students need to be sponsored by a Lehigh Faculty and be associated with an active allocation. A Lehigh faculty with no active allocation, can request an account for themselves and members of their group while requesting an allocation as described below. Accounts that do not have an active allocation for 6 months will be disabled. 

Allocations

An allocation is a block of computing time measured in core-hours or service units or SUs (number of processing cores requested times the amount of wall-clock time used in hours). There is no charge to using Sol/Hawk  resources. However, users need to have an allocation to charge simulation time. There are different types of allocation depending on amount of SUs and storage.

Eligibility

Only Full Time Lehigh faculty are eligible to be a PI on an allocation. Other users such as research staff including postdocs, graduate, and undergraduate students need to be associated with a Lehigh Faculty allocation. A user can be a member of multiple allocations, either the same faculty or different.

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Trial

Trial Allocations are geared towards first time HPC faculty who want to learn more about the capabilities of Sol/Hawk before requesting a startup or research allocation. Each allocation request will provide a maximum 10K SUs with a 6 month validity. 

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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.

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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The Manager of Research Computing in consultation with the Director of Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) will oversee allocation of computing time for education, outreach and training purposes. 

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1. Course Number, Workshop Title, Summer Research Program Name
2. Brief description on how resources will be used.
3. Approximate number of users in the program.
   1. If number of users is greater than 25, consider discussing with A. Pacheco the Ryan Bradley the appropriateness of Lehigh Resources vs XSEDE (or cloud computing).
4. List of applications to be used.

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Research Allocations are allocation requests larger than StartUp (>25K) with a maximum 300K allocation per Faculty.  A faculty can have multiple research allocations corresponding to multiple research projects. The total active SUs across all such projects including startup allocations should not exceed 300K at any time.
For example : John Doe has 4 existing projects with 30K, 40K, 80K, and 100K respectively for a total allocation of 250K SUs. John can be approved for an allocation provided the request is 50K SUs or less. Jane Doe who has similar projects but the smallest one expires at the end of the allocation cycle in 30 days can request a renewal with a maximum of 80K SUs. Jane’s total allocation until the end of the current cycle will be 250K and a total of 300K when the next cycle begins if the request is approved.

Active allocation is defined as an allocation that has not reached its end date. An expended allocation is active before its end date, it just cannot be used to charge computing time.computing time.

Requirement: A faculty requesting  a research allocation needs to submit a detailed research proposal. The proposal should contain the following -  

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The 1TB space provided here is only valid while you have an active allocation. If you do not have an active allocation, your data will be deleted freeing space that can be provisioned to other PI's with active allocations. Purchased Ceph space has the 5 year life and does not require an active allocation.

RCARC will allocate up to 40TB (20TB each allocation cycle) as part of the research allocation request.

• HPC PIs can combine their computing and storage requests in a single proposal. Storage approved by RCARC will be provided as Ceph project spaces at /share/ceph/{project_name}.
• Non HPC PIs, the space will appear as an additional folder when you mount R Drive.

This space cannot be combined with the free 1TB per HPC PI, R Drive or Ceph spaces purchased at $375/TB for 5 years. HPC does not backup Ceph (R Drive is a Ceph project)  nor do we provide backup services. Faculty are responsible for backing up their data and archiving it for later use.

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