Longhorn will be participating in the Texascale Days event, with about two-thirds of the nodes reserved for a large-scale run, beginning Tuesday February 2 and will return all nodes to being fully available on Tuesday February 9. These events enable research that requires extreme scale of at least half of the system. We have not yet scheduled our next Texascale Days event. Watch for a forthcoming announcement if you have a research problem that will benefit from running at this scale.

We are pleased to announce the fourth Frontera Pathways and Frontera Large Scale Community Partnership (LSCP) allocation tracks will remain open through November 20. Resources available for request include Frontera and its GPU subsystem, as well as the Longhorn GPU resource. 

Pathways

These are small allocations (between 10,000-250,000 SUs per year) to science teams with a strong scientific justification for access to a leadership-class computing resource, but who have not yet demonstrated code readiness to effectively utilize such a resource.

LSCP

These are allocations (between 25,000-1,000,000 SUs per year, up to 3 years) where we can’t strictly characterize the set of experiments to run within a 12-month allocation period, but that line up with a large team or community, a large instrument, or other large NSF investment.

Detailed descriptions of all four Frontera allocation tracks can be found on the Frontera Allocations web page.

How to Submit an Allocation Request

Please begin by reading the Allocations Policy & Submission Guidelines that provides information regarding who is eligible to apply, minimum and maximum allocation sizes, and an outline of the information that is required to be included in your proposal.

After reading the allocations policy and guidelines, you may determine that a startup allocation would be beneficial to do code performance and benchmarking to be incorporated into your Pathways or LSCP proposal. Instructions for obtaining a Startup allocation are included on the policy & guidelines web page.

Please submit any questions you may have through the TACC Consulting System or feedback form.

https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-consulting 

https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/feedback

Thanks,

Tim Cockerill

Director of User Services

Texas Advanced Computing Center

The University of Texas at Austin