| Successful XSEDE Proposal Webinar | | - Keep it short
- If you’re using code you wrote, explain why
- Provide detail about data to be stored, and amount and expected growth of data to be stored
- III. Application Efficiencies:
- Why you chose the specific resources?
- If you have your own code, how does it scale – what’s the performance?
- Efficiency of storage algorithms and protocols
- Describe and estimate expected growth
- IV. Computational Research Plan
- Explicitly describe the problem cases you will examine
- Explicitly describe the typical use-cases that the gateway supports and the type of runs that you expect users to make
- V. Justification of USs, TBs
- Straightforward math problem if you were clear enough in sections II-IV
- For each research problem, calculate the SUs required based on runs defined in IV and timings in III.
- Community gateway-type proposals:
- First year is trickier to calculate SUs / requires bootstrapping
- Beyond 2nd year, estimate total usage based on 1st year patterns
- VI. Additional Review Considerations
- Ability to complete the work plan (more significant for larger requests). It takes work to burn. Sufficient merit-reviewed funding (if you have it). Staff, both number and experience.
- Local computing environments (why aren’t your local resources sufficient?) 3:1 demand request vs. what’s available
- Special needs (ex: weather projects may be seasonal)
- Other access to HPC resources – campus, Blue Waters, etc.
- Other docs – try to limit to 2-3 pages
- CVs for PIs and Co-PIs
- Publications in the XRAS submission form (NSF and service providers see this as accomplishments – it’s important to publish)
- Optional documents if you need more space to justify something in your main document (only if needed!)
Proposal Review Criteria - Methodology
- State Appropriateness of Computations for Scientific Simulations – step size, time scale, etc.
- Describe Efficiency in Usage of Resources
- Computational Research Plan
XSEDE Project: Like a “bank account” for allocations. Permanent, only one per PI. Can transfer, supplement, extend, but it’s typically thought of as a 1-year allocation. Don’t use them, you lose them. Eligibility: PI must be researcher or educator (or postdoc) at U.S.-based institution Overview of Research Request: Portal account at xsede.org
Portal.xsede.org -> Allocations -> Submit/Review request
Web forms
Pdf upload for proposal and CV
~ 2.5 months b/w deadline and award
Deadlines: 15 Oct, Jan, Apr, July
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