NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Physical Sciences Division
REPORT TEMPLATE FOR GRANTED APPLICATIONS FOR COMPUTING TIME
PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE FOLLOWING:
Submission of your report
Your report must be submitted via the NWO “Iris” system at www.iris.nwo.nl
. You can log in to IRIS with the account and password you used for submitting the application (this should always be the main applicant’s account). Once logged-in, select “Projects”, then select the project you want to update – for IRIS submission of a project corresponds to an update - (for continuation projects you need to select the project number followed by the correct year of the project, i.e. 10 for 2010 or 11 for 2011) by clicking on the “update” button, use the button
“New project update”, and under “Report” complete the “Report” form by filling in the title box and the digital report template, and complete the “public text” item. Then upload your report as an attachment in PDF format.
Final important step: once your report (now called a project update) has been uploaded, the status will be: “ready to submit”. To complete the process you have to go back to the main menu and click the button “submit project updates”; select the update and submit it with your password.
Submission of “achieved results” (products)
“Products” mean publications directly resulting from the computing time used in the project and in which NWO
Physical Sciences has been acknowledged. Products are described under question 7d of this template and must also be submitted via the NWO Iris system.
Follow the steps as mentioned above under “submission of your report”, and under “Products” complete the various products as applicable for your project. Upload the attachments if applicable.
Only material that already has been published should be submitted. Products in preparation should be mentioned in your report under question 7d.1, and submitted via Iris as soon as they have been actually published.
ATTENTION: products should be submitted only once; please do not submit the same product again (e.g. in a project-update of a continuation project).
A.GENERAL INFORMATION
Project name
Scientific Area*
Relevance to the Top Sectors**
* choose from: Earth Sciences & Climate, Astronomy, Biosciences, Chemistry and Materials Science, Medical
Sciences, Physics, Linguistics, Technical Sciences and Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, Informatics, Genomics,
Other
** The Dutch government has designated nine ‘top sectors’: areas of economic activity to which extra attention is to be devoted. They are: Agrifood, Chemicals, the Creative Industry, Energy, High-tech Systems and Materials,
Life Sciences, Logistics, Horticulture and Water. For further information, see www.top-sectoren.nl
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State (where applicable) if and how your project proposal is relevant to one or more of the designated top sectors.
You should also include details of any proposed collaboration with the private sector if applicable.
This section will not affect the assessment but gives the GBE a better understanding of the manner in which proposals are relevant to the top sectors and the national economy.”
Final report (project finalized)
Fill out/mark
Yes/No
Yes/No Annual report (for projects running for more than one year)
Reporting period
Project number (select the project number followed by the year corresponding to the reporting period)
Title of the project
From To
Publicity: is (part of) the information in this report confidential, and as such cannot be published on the
NWO website ?
If yes, please indicate the reasons why
Yes/no
Please note that material from applications for projects for funding and/or computing time, and its associated reports, will be published on the NWO-website automatically, except if confidential matter is included.
1. Main applicant (the principal investigator, responsible for the report of the project)
Main applicant - name
First name
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REPORT TEMPLATE FOR GRANTED APPLICATIONS FOR COMPUTING TIME
Gender
Date of birth
Title(s)
Job title
Organisation
Faculty/department
Group/subgroup (‘leerstoelgroep’)
Address or P.O. Box
Postal code and city
Telephone e-mail
2. Project leader
Project leader - name
Gender
Title(s)
Job title
Organisation
Faculty/department
Group/subgroup (‘leerstoelgroep’)
Address or P.O. Box
Postal code and city
Telephone e-mail
3. Human resources for the project (persons involved in the computational work)
Name
Gender
Title(s)
Job title*
Organisation
Faculty/department
Group/subgroup (‘leerstoelgroep’)
Address or P.O. Box
Postal code and city
Telephone e-mail
Number of working hours per week on the project
Period
1 st ,2 nd or 3 rd channel (‘geldstroom’)
* Also indicate if AIO’s and OIO’s are involved.
If more persons are involved in the project, please copy the table and fill out for each person involved.
4. Type institute/organisation
University
NWO-Institute
Other (please indicate which)
Mark
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5. System(s) used
Mark
Bull bullx system (Cartesius) regular CPU nodes
Bull bullx system (Cartesius) GPU nodes
Dell National Computing Cluster (Lisa)
6. Amount of computing time used
The unit of computing time used is SBU (System Billing Unit).
Cartesius: one SBU corresponds to the usage of one core of the system for one hour. Cartesius batch nodes either have 24 cores (thin nodes, the majority), 32 cores (fat nodes), or 16 cores + 2 GPUs (GPU nodes). For the GPU nodes we do not charge the number of CPU cores but we charge the number of CPU cores times three.
Consequently:
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using a fat node for one hour costs 32 SBU,
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using a thin node for one hour costs 24 SBU,
using a GPU node for one hour costs 48 SBU.
Lisa:
Cartesius GPU: For the GPU nodes we do not charge the number of GPU cores but we charge the number of CPU cores times three. Consequently: three SBU corresponds with the usage of one CPU core of the system for one hour.
Project Type one SBU corresponds to the usage of one core of the system for one hour. Lisa nodes have 12 or
16 cores.
Requested amount (SBU) Actual used amount (SBU)
PROJECT Computing Time > 100.000 core hours
B. RESULTS OF THE PROJECT
7. Scientific results a. Scientific question
Describe the scientific project including the relation between subprojects (if any). Please mention the scientific question(s) you intended to answer in the project. Use a maximum of 1000 words for your description. b. Results
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Give a brief description of the scientific results achieved in the project;
Indicate how the usage of the requested computing facilities has been instrumental for your research in this project;
Indicate how the computational results fit within the scientific work of your research group (e.g. experimental/observational/theoretical);
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Give a short description of methods and/or algorithms which have been used and/or developed during the project. c. Applicability
Indicate if and how the achieved results are important for your scientific area, other scientific areas and industry. d. Publications; to be submitted via the NWO-Iris system (see instructions on page 1)
This concerns publications directly resulting from the computing time used in this project (please submit all products resulting from your project via Iris and upload attachments if applicable)
ATTENTION:
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REPORT TEMPLATE FOR GRANTED APPLICATIONS FOR COMPUTING TIME
 products should be submitted only once; please do not submit the same product again (e.g. in a projectupdate of a continuation project).
 Only already published products can be submitted via the NWO Iris system; publications in preparation have to be mentioned below (see 7d.2)
The following types of products are available in the project-update (“products”) tool in Iris:
 Scientific Articles
 Book chapters
 Books/monographs
 PhD-theses
 Conference Papers
 Professional publications
 Publications aimed at the general public-data
 Patents
 Other research output
(you will find a detailed explanation of these items in the Iris product-tool)
Please send any material that cannot be uploaded as an attachment via Iris (books, CD-ROMs etc.) to NWO
Physical Sciences by regular mail.
7d.1 Published papers:
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7d.2 Publications in preparation:
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Please submit these products via Iris as soon as they have been actually published. e. Specification of used computing time
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Provide a justification of the requested computing time. If applicable, provide a specification of the requested computing time for each sub project.
Type Run
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# Runs r1 r2 r3
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# Steps/Run s1 s2 s3
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Walltime/Step w1 w2 w3
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# CPU cores p1 p2 p3
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Total CHs/Type
Run r1*s1*w1*p1 r2*s2*w2*p2 r3*s3*w3*p3
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TOTAL GRAND TOTAL
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Indicate the actually performed post-processing work and indicate on which systems this was performed. f. Report for laymen (only for reports on applications > 5.000.000)
Please describe in in laymen’s terms (max. 500 words):
- The goals of the project;
- The importance of access to the supercomputer;
- The results gained from use of the supercomputer;
- add a descriptive figure to illustrate the research.
8. Experiences with the systems a.
Indicate your general experiences with the usage of the computing facilities of this project;
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Indicate if there have been any technical problems related to usage of the system (e.g. porting of the code, operating system, compilers, storage and back-up, memory, communication, access, libraries, performance). c.
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Indicate your opinion on the suitability of the hardware and software for your application.
Do you expect to continue using the supercomputing facilities for your future research work ? Please indicate the level of service and support you may need. Indicate if you may need any special software, libraries and/or specific training/support (e.g. parallellisation skills, programming languages, etc.).
9. Future a. Do you expect to continue this project ? b. If you do not expect to continue the project, please indicate the reasons why.
C. DATE
Date
By (main applicant or project leader)
Please submit this report form in pdf format via the NWO IRIS system. Follow the link here ( NWO Iris ).
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