Application for Membership in the SP-XXL User Group

[This section is for the Sponsor's comments]

MySite sponsors SITE's application for membership of the SP-XXL. 

SITE has a very large IBM Power5 cluster. SITE is no stranger to supercomputing, in the past it has played an active role in supercomputer user groups. In 1999 it hosted the International Supercomputer Meeting.  SITE fulfils all the criteria for membership of SP-XXL. SITE will attend ScicomP and will be able to attend the SP-XXL meeting as well.

  1. Name of Institution

    SITE - Sample Institute of Technology Environmental

  2. Location of Institution

    Sometown (U.S.A.)

  3. URL for Institution

    http://www.site.sometown.gov

  4. Lead person at Institution for SP-XXL (Include name, mailing address, email address, telephone, and fax).

    John Smith, Director R&D

    100 Smith Lane
    Sometown, CA
    USA

    smith@site.sometown.gov

    Tel: 01-510-495-2883
    Fax: 01-510-486-4316

  5. Each of the following criteria factor equally into the evaluation of a new member application. An applying Institution should describe its capabilities and activities that address each of the criteria. 

    1. Institutional commitment on scientific/technical computing with a focus on large parallel computing (e.g., a parallel application running on 50% of their  system nodes) [20%].

      SITE is installing a 15TFLOPS Supercomputer for weather forecasting and research.
      100% of the computing power will be used for meteorological applications that are all parallelized, such as NFS, GFS, WRF, MM5..

    2. Institutional objective to track advancements in software and hardware technology (as possible within funding limitations and procurement regulations) [20%].

      In the past SITE used CDC computers and vector supercomputers from Cray and Fujitsu. SITE is now installing an IBM POWER5 p5- 575 cluster supercomputer with 2496 processors.
      SITE will upgrade scaleable parallel software, both vendor-supplied and other such as replacing the MM5 model by WRF.

    3. Active R&D efforts in applications, tools/libraries or system software, either individually by the Institution or in collaboration with one or more SP-XXL sites and/or IBM [20%].

      One third of the 2496 processors will be used for R&D efforts in applications, tools/libraries or system software for the large scale system.
      SITE will be very pleased to collaborate with one or more SP-XXL sites or IBM to further its objectives.

    4. Operates one or more large IBM Systems installed at their site that are used for large, parallel scientific/technical computing applications. Describe each System and the applications. [20%]

      SITE is installing an IBM POWER5 p5-575 cluster supercomputer with 2496 processors. It comprises 156 nodes, each with 16-way 1.5GHz POWER5 processors. This will give a total peak performance in the order of 15TFLOPS.
      SITE is using the following numerical weather prediction models in production: MM5, NFS, GFS for operation. SITE is planning to include the WRF model in the near future.

    5. Specify the type of activities and contributions the Institution plans to have in the SP-XXL. [20%]

      SITE is working with MMM (Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology) group to introduce the WRF model into SITE for operational use.