INCITE Seeking Proposals for U.S. Leadership Computing

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incite_on_black-555x300The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains.

INCITE’s open call provides an opportunity for researchers to make transformational advances in science and technology through large allocations of computer time and supporting resources at the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (LCF) centers, both U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facilities.

In 2016, the winning proposals will receive awards of time on Titan, the 27-petaflop Cray XK7 at Oak Ridge, and Mira, the 10-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q at Argonne. In 2017, multiyear awardees may also have access to Theta, a next-generation 8.5-petaflop Cray XC supercomputing platform at Argonne. INCITE will allocate approximately 6 billion core-hours on these DOE leadership-class supercomputers in 2016, with average awards per project expected to be on the order of 75 million core-hours for Titan and 100 million core-hours for Mira. The largest allocations could be as much as several hundred million core-hours.

Open to US- and non-US-based researchers, the INCITE program seeks research proposals for capability computing: production simulations—including ensembles—that use a large fraction of the LCF systems or require the unique LCF architectural infrastructure for high-performance computing projects that cannot be performed anywhere else. Proposals may be for up to three years.

Applications undergo a peer review process to identify projects with the greatest potential for impact and a demonstrable need for leadership-class systems to deliver solutions to grand challenges. Additionally, applications will be evaluated for the computational readiness of the proposed software.

To help you prepare, INCITE program will host an instructional proposal writing webinar on May 27. Proposals are due June 26, 2015.

Source: OLCF.

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