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Userna me:
bjornhs@rnd.feide.no
Applica tion id:
824
Project title:
Adva nced Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry, Ra dia tion a nd
Circula tion
Applica tion la st
sa ved:
2011-08-17 09:50:20
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Page 1: Personalia, project leader
1. Account responsible*:
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Bjørn H. Samset
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2. Job title/position:
Senior Research Fellow
3. E-mail address*:
b.h.samset@cicero.uio.no
4. Phone no*:
+4722858787
5. Cell-phone number
+4792051998
6. Institution*:
CICERO
7. Faculty (if any):
8. Department (if any):
9. Street address*:
P.b. 1129 Blindern
10. Post code*:
0318
11. Post office/City*:
Oslo
12. Country*:
Norway
13. You have indicated that you hold a permanent position at your
institution.
Page 2: Project details and funding
1. Title for this application*:
Advanced Modeling of
Atmospheric Chemistry,
Radiation and Circulation
1a. Notur Account number:
NN9188K
1b. Project acronym:
AMACRaC
1c. Project summary (This summary can be used for dissemination
purposes. No more than 250 words. The summary should be
understandable to a wide audience, including researchers and
engineers, users of the national infrastructure, university
management, funding angencies - e.g., research council, etc. The
summary should include objectives, a description of the problem and
its scientific and/or socio-economic relevance, the main scientific
methods and algorithms used, the challenges in particular with
respect to computation and data management, and expected
results)*:
How does the atmosphere react to changes in composition, e.g.
emissions of climate gases and aerosols? Studying this requires
uniting geophysics, physics and chemistry through heavy computer
models, which must have both high resolution and level of detail. This
project performs state-of-the-art modeling of the atmosphere, from
emissions through chemical interactions, to radiation balance and
global atmospheric circulation.
2. Field(s) of science*:
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Geosciences
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3. If other field of science, please
specify:
4. For projects funded by the Research NORKLIMA,
Council of Norway, specify the name of OTHER,
the programme(s):
RENERGI
5. If the Research Council of Norway
programme is not listed here, please
specify:
SLAC (newly fundes NFR SIS),
ARCACT (under NORKLIMA),
TEMPO (under RENERGI)
6. If the project is financed by the
Research Council of Norway or by the
Ministry of Education and Research
(KD), specify the title and contract
number of the project:
7. The project is (fully or in part)
funded by your institution:
No / Not entered
8. In case the project is supported from other sources (e.g., EU,
industry, ...), please provide details:
Additional funding through EU and NORFORSK programmes.
9. Select the allocation periods for
which you wish to apply*:
2011.2 (2011-10-01 2012-03-31)
2012.1 (2012-04-01 2012-09-30)
Page 3: Software details
1. User developed software*:
OsloCTM2, disort
2. Public domain software*:
None
3. Software obtained from
collaborative partners*:
NCAR CESM 1.0
4. Library software*:
None
5. Commercial software*:
ifort, pgf
6. Other software on which your application software depends and
that must be available/preinstalled on the system(s), e.g. system
libraries, numerical libraries, performance libraries and so on.
Examples are BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, FFTW, PetSC, Perl, Python,
Java, ...*:
python, netcdf
Page 4: Project hardware properties
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1. Largest number of cores for a single
33-64
job*
2. Memory per processor core*
1-2GB
3. I/O intensive*
Mixed
4. Expected total need for storage of
home directories
5. Expected total need for tape
storage
6. Processor core hours requested on resource (click resource name
for details)*:
Resource /
Period
2010.2 2011.1 2011.2 2012.1 2012.2
hexagon
hours
njord
hours
stallo
hours
titan
300000 300000
hours
7. Please motivate the amount of hours requested for each system
under question 6. Applications for a large amount of hours are
strongly encouraged to provide a justification. Here, one can for
example consider the expected number of jobs and individual job
sizes, project history, etc. Applications that do not provide a
justification are more likely to be rejected or reduced in size. List the
resources that can also be used, but for which no hours are
requested. (This question can be left empty if the project is in a
start-up phase or intended for testing purposes only.):
The project has three subcategories with varying needs: - Chemical
modelling with OsloCTM2. Each full yearly simulation requires ~1k
CPUh on titan, and each modeler will need to run up to 20 simulations
through the period. Hence, for five modelers, we need OsloCTM2:
100k CPUh - Radiative transfer calculations with disort. Again a full
year requires approx 1kCPUh per study, and we estimate the need
for ten individual studies. Hence: Disort: 100k CPUh - CESM1.0
running: The CESM is a global circulation model, running with high
spatial and temporal resolution. It requires 500 CPUh per simulated
year, and we need to run 10 cases for 50 years, and three cases for
100 years. The total becomes CESM1.0: 400k CPUh Total need: 600k
CPUh (All numbers are from test runs on titan, amd processors only.)
8. Describe the need for your project to apply for allocations on the
Notur compute resources*:
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The computing resources available at CICERO and MetOS are
sufficient for the analysis of the output of major simulations, but not
for the simulations themselves. To be able to fulfull our obligations to
NFR, EU and other financers, we are dependent on time allocations on
Notur resources.
9. Each new user obtains a home
directory of default size on the HPC
systems. In case the default size is
insufficient, the user must submit a
request for increased area to the
system administration of the HPC
system in question with sufficient
justification. The project can apply for
project area on one or more HPC
systems. This area is shared by all
users connected to the project.
4 TB
Please provide sufficient explanation for the requested project area
and its size. Also specify on which system(s) you need this project
area. Note that storage capacity on the NorStore resources must be
requested separately*:
CICERO and MetOS(UiO) have private disks for long term storage, but
for project running some disk space beyond the user accounts will
be necesseary.
Page 5: Additional project properties
1. Describe the feasibility of using the requested resource(s). Include
a description of the characteristics of the software and simulations
that may limit the choice of the systems that can be used (e.g.,
memory, disk, I/O requirements, and 3rd party software). E.g., why is
a shared-memory platform needed and not a distributed-memory
cluster? Please state the risk of not being able to use an allocation.
Also state the reasons for not having used previous allocations, if any:
The project members have previously been running the same
software under project nr. nn4701k, which has been over-used. The
first allocation period of the present project (nn9188k) has at the time
of writing utilized 200k of a 350k hour allocation, with significant
amounts of work being planned for the month leading up to the end
of the period. The applications are only moderately demanding in
terms of I/O and memory, and most commonly run on either 8 or 64
cores via OpenMPI.
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2. In case the applicant also has local quota on the facility at his/her
home institution for this project, the corresponding project account
number and project title must be provided:
None
3. Detail the expected measurable output in number of publications
and students (master and PhD) in the requested period. For new
applications, less emphasis will be put on this question.*:
Based on previous experience, the AMACRaC collaborators publish
approx. five papers in peer-reviewed journals per six months, based
on simulations like the ones planned here. In addition there is an
active science outreach activity based on the results. Several PhD
students are currently involved in the project.
Page 6: Files
1. Project description*:
AMACRaC description
2011_02.pdf Size: 345kb
2. CV:
cv_general_2011.pdf Size:
606kb
3. Other file:
None
Page 7: Extra information required for large applications
1. Describe the experience of using the HPC resources by the
applicant and the users connected to the application
The main applicant and several project members are highly
experienced HPC users, both on titan and other computing facilites
(e.g. CERN). All software is already running on titan, set up for parallell
running either by the project members, by the original developers, or
previously by Hans Eide.
2. Describe the efficiency of the software in terms of sustained singleprocessor single-core performance, or scalability in case the project
envisages to run parallel simulations with many cores. A detailed
description can be uploaded on "Page 6", but please provide a
summary here:
All software runs in parallel via OpenMPI. Two of the three activities
usually run on 8 cores on a single node, while the GCM part normally
runs on 64 cores over several nodes.
3. Suggest 3-4 referees to review this application. The referees must
have competence with HPC within this application area. Referees
should not have recent or ongoing collaborations with any members
of the research group or any other possible conflicts of interest
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(Name, title, affiliation, and email address are required):
4. The duration of a LARGE project can span 1, 2, or 4 allocation
periods (6, 12 or 24 months). In case processor core hours are
requested for several allocation periods, specify below how the
requested processor core hours are divided over these allocation
periods:
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