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 submit a request at InfoReady describing the anticipated software needs, storage and computing usage at least two weeks prior to the start of the semester the course is taught. The anticipated usage should be less than 2.0 M CPU core-hours, and GPU Node hours less than 5,000.
Startup and (small) educational allocations requests will be reviewed by the UW Faculty Director for Research Computing Resources 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 InfoReady, and 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; and
- resources requested (e.g. core-hours, HPSS, DAV, etc).
