Date:Ā Mar 23, 2020, 9:45 AM
Subject: NSCC Special Call for Projects: HPC Resources for COVID-19 Research
Dear Users,Ā
Application Period:Ā Now ā 23 September 2020
Resources Allocation Period:Ā One (1) year from date of resource allocationĀ
1. Overview:
In view of the COVID-19 situation, NSCC will be supporting researchers in Singapore who wish to make use of supercomputing resources to aid their work on any effort related to COVID-19.Ā
This provision allows researchers who are involved in COVID-19-related research work to have āfast-trackedā access to supercomputing resources and without having to wait for the biannualĀ Call for Projects.Ā
2. Eligibility:
This special call is open toĀ all NSCC stakeholders as well as non-stakeholdersĀ as part of a national effort to deploy the extraordinary provisioning of advanced HPC to accelerate COVID-19 research in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.Ā
3. Duration of Call:
The application period for this special call is for six months, from 23 March ā 23 September 2020. NSCC will review this arrangement again near the end of the six-month period to evaluate the need for an extension.Ā
4. Types of Resources Available:
- ASPIRE 1, a petascale supercomputer, which consists of 1,288 nodes of CPU and 128 accelerator nodes with NVIDIA K40 GPUs.
- AI System which consists of 6 units of state-of-the-art 8-GPU NVIDIA DGX-1 with V100 cards. This system is meant for projects that focus on AI research with particular novelty on scale and/or throughput breakthrough.
- 13PB of High Performance Storage
Ā Resources provisioned have to be used up within one year from the time of allocation.Ā Projects under this scheme will be allocated a priority queue for their job submissions.Ā
5. Application:
The applications will be reviewed by a special COVID-19 selection committee comprising HPC Bioinformatics experts. Approved resources will be provisioned within 2 weeks from the submission date.
- For users from stakeholder organisations:
Please follow the steps below to submit an application:
- Login to the NSCC Projects Portal.
- Create, complete and submit the application form.
- Please indicate āCOVID-19 Emergency Provisioning for HPC Resourcesā in the Project Description.
If you are unable to log in to the Projects Portal, please see below for the alternative method to submit an application:
- Download the Offline Application Form.
- Send the completed form to [email protected] with the email titled āCOVID-19 Emergency Provisioning for HPC Resourcesā.
For those projects currently submitted for approval as part of the NSCC six-monthly Call for Research Projects, they will be automatically fast-tracked for administrative processing if they are classified as COVID-19 related by the COVID-19 selection committee.Ā
- For users from non-stakeholder organisations:
Please follow the steps below to submit an application:
- Go to the following link: https://go.nscc.sg/trial.
- Complete and submit the application form.
- Please indicate āCOVID-19 Emergency Provisioning for HPC Resourcesā in the Project Description.
Ā NSCC will extend the existing complimentary trial period from a 2-month Basic Plan (10,000 CPU core-hours) to a 6-month Basic Plan (30,000 CPU core hours) to support non-stakeholders who are involved in COVID-19 related project.Ā
Usage is subject to adherence to NSCCās Standard Operating Procedure, Acceptable User Policy and other policies such as export control regulations, as well as a written acceptance of a disclaimer.Ā
*Note that stakeholder organisations refer to A*STAR, NUS, NTU, SUTD, TCOMS and NEA.Ā
Please feel free to contact us atĀ [email protected]Ā (for stakeholder users) andĀ [email protected]Ā (for non-Āstakeholder users) for any further questions. Ā Ā
Thank you.Ā
Best regards,
NSCC Team
National Supercomputing Centre Singapore
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