PACE A Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment

Starting at close of business today, PACE staff will be unavailable for the Thanksgiving Holiday.  For normal issues, please continue to submit through the usual support channels, and we’ll address them next week.

If you have a dire emergency, please contact the OIT NOC.  I’ve included their availability announcement below.

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-Wed 11/24 1700 – Mon 11/29 0630: Rich building closed for Thanksgiving Holiday. NOC will be unattended from early Thursday morning until noon Saturday and from 1900 Saturday until 0700 Sunday. Emergency contact number will be left on the NOC phone (404-894-4669).

The Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE) is excited to release a new website (www.pace.gatech.edu) to better serve the Georgia Tech research community.

PACE is a partnership between Georgia Tech faculty and the Office of Information Technology focused on High Performance Computing (HPC).  Strong support from Georgia Tech’s senior leadership enables PACE to provide infrastructure, software, and dedicated technical services for participating researchers, allowing them to focus their HPC investments primarily on compute nodes and expanded storage.  In addition, all GT faculty can request access to the FoRCE Research Computing Environment which is a shared cluster that includes nodes, GPU’s, and high-speed scratch storage.  PACE provides faculty participants with a sustainable, leading-edge HPC infrastructure with technical support services. Thus allowing faculty to focus on research while reducing their direct cost for HPC equipment.

With these new efforts, PACE has launched a revamped web site aimed toward providing:

• More technical information for current and future HPC users at Georgia Tech.
• Detailed information for faculty/departments on how they can participate in the Partnership
• General information for everyone on the HPC efforts and progress at Tech.

For more details about how to be a part of PACE, please read more about how you can participate.

We welcome your comments and feedback, please contact neil.bright@oit.gatech.edu with any suggestions you may have.

For anybody that hasn’t seen it already, NSF has released their solicitation for this year’s MRI program.

http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=5260&ods_key=nsf11503

As usual, GT may submit up to three proposals to the program, two for instrument acquisition and a third for instrument development.

This year, the NSF anticipates 175 awards in the range of $100k – $4M, with a total of $90M in anticipated funding for the program.  Proposals requesting greater than $1M will receive a higher degree of review, and compete for $35M of the $90M.

If you are planning a proposal with a computational component, please don’t hesitate to contact us.  We can help with the configuration, equipment budget and facilities boilerplate.