A2C2 provides proposal support assistance to our research community, particularly in the form of “letters of support,” answering questions and discussion of the support that we can provide on grants that require advanced computing resources. Please contact us at a2c2@asu.edu if you have specific questions or require would like to schedule an appointment for further discussion.
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LETTER OF SUPPORT
Dear Professor XX:
The ASU Advanced Computing Center (A2C2) is pleased to support your X proposal entitled “Z”. We are particularly excited about engaging this topic as one of the central challenges facing scientific discovery and engineering innovation is our ability to extract actionable knowledge from the Big Data we now generate.
The A2C2 represents ASU’s investment in centralized research computing. A2C2 currently supports about 3800 cores with high-speed Infiniband QDR interconnects for high-performance and high-throughput computing, a 32 core 2TB RAM symmetric multiprocessing machine for high-memory computing, and 400TB of high-speed scratch storage. These computing resources are housed in a 1600 sq ft, 750 kW, 54° F 46 gallon/minute chilled water, 69° F 16,000 ft3/min chilled air, data center located in Goldwater 167. In addition to the physical infrastructure, the A2C2 maintains a team of high-end operations professionals who deliver a leading edge software stack.
To support your proposal, the A2C2 will pledge:
· Access to A2C2 research computing systems.
· Access to N CPU-hours at $0.01/cpu-hour should your project need additional resources.
· Access to its campus-area 10G research grid network.
· Access to Internet2 100GB/s Ethernet, starting January 2013.
· Access to A2C2 high-speed scratch storage systems.
· Assistance from A2C2 personnel for porting and debugging.
· Students and researchers working on this project will have access to training courses in parallel computing provided by the A2C2 at no cost.
We look forward to a productive collaboration between your research team and the A2C2 through this exciting new Center.
Sincerely,
Prof. Frank Timmes
Director
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FACILITIES:
The A2C2 represents ASU’s investment in centralized research computing. A2C2 currently supports about 3800 cores with high-speed Infiniband QDR interconnects for high-performance and high-throughput computing, a 32 core 2TB RAM symmetric multiprocessing machine for high-memory computing, and 400TB of high-speed scratch storage. These computing resources are housed in a 1600 sq ft, 750 kW, 54° F 46 gallon/minute chilled water, 69° F 16,000 ft3/min chilled air, data center located in Goldwater 167. In addition to the physical infrastructure, the A2C2 maintains a team of high-end operations professionals who deliver a leading edge software stack. This proposal seeks to purchase “N” cpu-hours at $0.01/cpu-hour for “M” years.
