[intrepid-notify] ALCF Weekly Updates - April 12

[ALCF User Services]

*** Register Now for the Leap to Petascale Workshop May 22-25 ***
Mark your calendars and plan to attend Leap to Petascale: Making the Move to Mira. This workshop is geared especially for current INCITE and discretionary projects that have already scaled to multiple racks of Intrepid. With the arrival of Mira, the ALCF’s 10-petaflops Blue Gene/Q, this year's workshop will focus on issues of scaling to the next-gen system. The workshop is also timed to coincide with efforts of teams preparing to submit 2013 INCITE proposals. A significant portion of workshop time will be devoted to hands-on tuning of applications with one-on-one assistance from our performance engineers and computational scientists. Special system reservations will provide the opportunity for full-scale runs. To register, visit https://www.alcf.anl.gov/workshops/l2p-workshop

*** Reminder: Intrepid and Challenger /home Directories Mounted Read-Only on I/O Nodes ***
Please remember that, as of earlier this year, Intrepid and Challenger /home directories are mounted read-only on the I/O nodes. When you need to write, please do so only to intrepid-fs0 and intrepid-fs1. For details on ALCF data storage policies, please visit: http://www.alcf.anl.gov/resource-guides/data-policy

*** "Preparing for INCITE" Webinar April 24. Register Now! *** 
The open call for 2013 INCITE awards is April 11-June 27, 2012. To be eligible for an INCITE award, your project must demonstrate a high-impact science goal, plus computational readiness and the need for leadership-class supercomputing resources. Visit https://www.alcf.anl.gov/incite2013 to find out more about the INCITE Program and to register for this informational webinar.

*** Reminder: ScicomP 2012 (Toronto, May 14-18) ***
For those attending ScicomP 2012, the hotel room block and conference early registration have been extended through next Tuesday, April 17th. ScicomP is also pleased to announce an additional tutorial segment on Tuesday, May 15. Following the originally scheduled segments on Power7 and Blue Gene will be "Optimizing Unified Parallel C Programs on the IBM POWER architecture." See http://spscicomp.org/scicomp2012 for more information.

*** INCITE RFI Open *** 
Are you planning to submit an INCITE proposal for 2013? If so, the INCITE Program invites you to respond to a Request for Information to inform the INCITE management of the proposal topics they can anticipate in this year's open call for proposals. Visit https://hpc.science.doe.gov/allocations/incite/ to respond. Please note: The information requested here is not a prerequisite for proposal submittal, nor will it limit any requests you may decide to make in your INCITE proposal.

*** Preventive Maintenance Monday ***
The Surveyor and Gadzooks systems will have their regularly scheduled preventive maintenance period this coming week. Maintenance starts at 14:00 UTC on Monday, Apr. 16 2012, and is expected to end at 18:00 UTC on Monday, Apr. 16 2012. During this time, no jobs will be run on the systems, there may be disruptions in filesystem access, and there may be disruptions in network access to the login nodes.

The Intrepid, Challenger, and Eureka systems will have their regularly scheduled preventive maintenance period this coming week, as well. Maintenance starts at 14:00 UTC on Monday, Apr. 16, 2012, and is expected to end at 03:00 UTC on Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2012. During this time, there will be no access to the Intrepid login nodes and no jobs will be run on the system.

Mail will be sent when the work has been completed and the machines are again available for general use. Please send any comments or questions to support at alcf.anl.gov

*** Important Dates ***
Apr. 11 - INCITE 2013 Call for Proposals opens (April 11 - June 27)
Apr. 20 - SC12 submission deadline for paper abstracts: http://sc12.supercomputing.org/ 
Apr. 20 - ACM Gordon Bell Award abstracts due: http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/awards
Apr. 24 - "Preparing for INCITE 2013" - Informational Webinar: https://www.alcf.anl.gov/incite2013
Apr. 27 - SC12 Submission deadlines for tutorials, workshops, full papers: http://sc12.supercomputing.org/
Apr. 27 - ACM Gordon Bell full submissions due: http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/awards
May 14-18 - ScicomP 2012: http://spscicomp.org/scicomp2012 
May 22-25 - "Leap to Petascale: Making the Move to Mira" - Workshop: https://www.alcf.anl.gov/workshops/l2p-workshop









Chel Heinzel
Marketing & Outreach
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
ph. 630-252-6138
bldg. 240/2-D-29








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