Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

Expression of Interest for the Advanced Technology Cluster

Submissionsshould use this document as a template, and must be at most 6 pages in length. Instructional text in grey italics such as this may be omitted to reclaim space. However, section titles and tables must be preserved.Submissions must use Word 2010 or PDF format.

Project Title

The project title should be meaningful to a wide audience and may be published.

Project Leader

The project leader must be employed by an Australian university or research institution.

Name / Affiliation / Institutional Email / %FTE

Project Team

The project team should list key contributors to the proposed project activity

Name / Affiliation / Institutional Email / %FTE

Track Record Summary (Research)

The research track record caninclude relevant publication metrics, grants and awards, patents, published software, institutional and community support for the project leader and/or team, or other indicators of research impact.

Research Significance

The research significance should be concise, accessible to a wide audience and include relevance to national and/or state priority areas.

Commitment of Effort

The commitment of effort should indicate the time and expertise the project team will dedicate during the early adopter period to port codes and workflows to the ATC. It is anticipated that competitive proposals will provide significant commitment towards porting and testing, to complement the support from the Pawsey Supercomputing team.

Track Record (Technical)

The technical track record should include recent allocations and utilisation on National and International supercomputing facilities (egPawsey, NCI, VLSCI, Massive, and NCI-SFB), as well as team engagement in other early adopter processes, technology demonstrators, and software porting projects.

Application Characteristics

The technical characteristics should describe the key codes to be used by the project team, including:

  • Level of team experience using the code
  • Code maintainers (Team/Commercial/Community)
  • Demonstrated scalability (eg Strong, Weak, #cores, etc)
  • Typical HPC resource requirements (egCPU/GPU core usage per job, wall-times, number of jobs in workflow )
  • Range of existing technology platforms for which the codes have demonstrated effective performance (eg processor, accelerator, memory, interconnect, storage, system software)
  • Performance constraints (eg Compute/Memory/Communication-bound, Serial, etc)
  • Performance requirements (eg FLOPS, memory capacity, interconnect bandwidth, storage capacity)
  • Checkpoint-restart capabilities

Technologies of Interest

The technologies of interest should outline technologies that the project team would like to explore using the ATC. Technologies not suitable for the research area can also be identified. Potential technologies are described in the Pawsey HPC Technology Update document, but others may be suggested. While this section is divided into technology areas for clarity, it is not compulsory to complete all areas.

Compute Technologies

Consider including technologies such as ARM, FPGA, GPU, Power, x86, Xeon Phi, etc.

Memory Technologies

Consider including technologies such as NUMA Shared Memory systems, etc.

Interconnect Technologies

Consider including technologies such as Omni-Path, Infiniband, etc.

Storage Technologies

Consider includingtechnologies such as NVRAM, parallel file systems, etc.

System Software Technologies

Consider includingtechnologies such as CUDA, MPI, OpenACC, OpenCL, OpenMP, etc.