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ARE YOU ELIGIBLE? To apply
you must be a researcher or educator
at a U.S. institution
or an NPACI staff member. Generally, the guidelines outlined
in the current NSF
Grant Proposal Guide apply. Please note:
- A postdoc is eligible to serve as a principal
investigator (PI).
- If your institution is not a university or a 2- or 4-year
college, special
rules may apply.
- A PI may not be a high school,
undergraduate, or graduate student; a qualified advisor
must serve in this capacity.
Instructions for researchers and educators
If you are eligible and do not have an NPACI
(i.e., ux*) account, you may submit a full proposal
for peer review (for more information see
Allocations);
however, these are
granted only twice a year. For quicker access to the NPACI
grid,
you
will need
to submit
an expedited
account allocation request. A
proposal must be attached to the request in one of the accepted
accepted
formats:
PDF, HTML, Microsoft Word, or Postscript. Within the
proposal, mention how your project will make use of the
NPACI
Grid.
Requests for expedited awards may be submitted at any time
at POPS (https://pops-submit.paci.org/),
the PACI Online Proposal System. Once you have authenticated
within the POPS system, use the following information to guide
you through the submission process:
- NPACI Proposal Type: new
- Service Unit's Range Selection: 0-10000
- Upcoming Board Type Meetings: SAC-SDSC
(Small Allocations Committee for NPACI)
- Enter required PI information
- (Optional) Enter Co-PI information
- Enter proposal information
- Within Available Resources, select:
- U of Michigan AMD Linux Cluster,
500 SU's, and your memory requirements
- U of Texas IBM Power4 - 500 SU's
- SDSC IBM Blue Horizon - 1000
SU's
- Upload your proposal
- Submit
Instructions for NPACI staff members
NPACI employees who are not using the allocations review
process (expedited award or peer review) need to submit a
ticket at
http://www.npaci.edu/Consult in
order to obtain accounts (i.e., ux*). In
the ticket form, please complete the following fields:
- Name and contact information
- NPACI username: type new_account_request
- NPACI Resources: select the NPACI
Grid radio button
- Type of Problem list box: select Accounts
- Brief summary of request: new NPACI account
- Description of request: specify
the systems (horizon, longhorn,and/or
morpheus/hypnos)
to which access is required and the name of your organization
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