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[Brian H]

ailabs wrote: Might be helpful to apply for the INCITE program to speed up simulation work:

DOE Awards 265 Million Processor-Hours To Science Projects
from the yay-i-get-to-compute dept.
posted by Zonk on Monday January 21, @02:21 (Supercomputing)
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/20/1737203

Weather Storm writes “DOE’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program supports computationally intensive, large-scale research projects at a governmental level. They recently awarded 265 million processor-hours to 55 scientific projects, the largest amount of supercomputing resource awards donated in the
DOE’s history and three times that of last year’s award. The winners were chosen based on their potential breakthroughs in the areas of science and engineering research, and the suitability of the project for using supercomputers.

This year’s INCITE applications ranged from developing nanomaterials to advancing the nation’s basic understanding of physics and chemistry, and from designing quieter cars to improving commercial aircraft design. The next round of the INCITE competition will be announced this summer. Expansion of the DOE Office of Science’s computational capabilities should approximately quadruple the 2009 INCITE award allocations to close to a billion processor hours.”

Link: http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/9009

Eric has posted the following:
“Changes to the software will allow a roughly five-fold speed up allowing us to run about 80 ns per month.

This is still slow, as the full run-down and compression lasts 400 ns, so LPP is actively seeking additional processing power to speed the insulations. Currently we are using a 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon