NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center

 

Start-up allocations. UW graduate students and post-docs and UW faculty working towards creating data, testing algorithms, etc., for a future grant proposal, or need of small allocations to support a funded scientific project in atmospheric, geologic, earth system sciences and related areas are eligible to apply for a start-up allocation. 

Educational allocations. The WNA encourages the use of high-performance computing in undergraduate and graduate courses at UW, and accounts can be provided to individual students in such courses (who agree to and follow usage policies) and the UW professor for assignments involving numerical simulations, modeling, and use of recently developed computational architecture. Faculty needing to use a WNA resource for an undergraduate or graduate course they are teaching should send e-mail to wrap@uwyo.edu describing the anticipated software needs, storage and computing usage at least two weeks prior to the start of the semester the course is taught. If the anticipated usage is more than 200,000 core-hours for the class, then WNA will want an extended abstract describing how the resource estimate was calculated.  If anticipated usage for the class is more than 1000,000 core-hours, then a large allocation request must be submitted for WRAP review.

Startup and (small) educational allocations requests will be reviewed by the WRAP UW Chair upon submission. No panel review is needed for these allocations, and such a request can usually be accommodated within a few business days.

Completion of a startup or educational allocation should be accompanied by a final report describing the allocation outcomes, stated appropriately in terms of the original objectives. The report should be submitted to wrap@uwyo.edu.

Information about small allocation requests. 

Requests for small allocations are made at https://uwyo.infoready4.com/, and will require the following information:

• Title of requesting scientist
• Department
• A brief summary of the education of the requesting scientist 
• Area of scientific interest
• A brief, self-contained proposal describing the project; with larger requests giving details on the numerical experiments to be performed 
•  Sponsor information (Funded research project associated with the award, PI contact information
•  Graduate students must arrange for a letter/email from the advisor stating that the work is not supported by any other source. 
• Resources requested (e.g. core-hours, HPSS, DAV, etc).