Resource Allocation Grants
Please describe the aims of the project in educated lay terms (say at the level a BSc graduate could understand). Also include references to publications about the research where appropriate. Names of referees may also be supplied here if desired.
Indicate the experience of the applicant and the project team in projects of this nature, along with brief numerical summary of publications produced by the team, and competitive grants funded, or consulting grants obtained.
Please indicate why HPC resources are needed to conduct the research.
Address how the HPC resources are to be exploited - eg what sort of parallelisation strategy is employed. Where possible, please supply benchmarks of a typical program run on relevant ac3 computers, indicating parallel speedup. If parallelism is not employed, please also supply a comparable benchmark of your code on a modern PC or workstation, or in lieu of that, a single processor benchmark on one of ac3's computers, with the resident set size limited to 128MB.
The resident set size is the minimum memory your program needs, i.e. the sum of the sizes of all variables, arrays, etc. without considering data that may be generated or read during the execution of the program.
Please describe how you estimate the resources needed for the project. Barossa will have around 3.9 million system units available and McLaren 1.1 million system units. Grants are for a period of six months, with automatic extension for a further six months, subject to a report being filed of the project's progress.
Requirements of more than 1GB of disk storage should be requested through the "Disk Storage required'' field of the form. Please indicate the reasons for your requirements.
Please also indicate on the form a minimum viability threshold, below which the project is not worth pursuing. By default, this threshold is zero (ie you would be happy to receive any allocation the committee chooses to give you).
Please indicate any key software required for your project.