New scheme of MCRP 2019
Multidisciplinary Cooperative Research Program (MCRP)   Supercomputers at CCS, University of Tsukuba
open to researchers
Free-of-charge usage, but requires
Publication of results
Poster/talk at this annual CCS symposium
Accomplishment Report (at the end of fiscal year)
CCS also provide resources through HPCI.
Paid usage is also available:
Large-scale general utilization ()MCRP
Important for many applications, especially in basic science
Role of “safety net” for HPCI applications.
Keep high approval rate
2018: Applications of more than 400% ofavailable resources
Approval with substantial cut of resources(especially for those with large-scale applications)
Need to change the scheme

Application
2018: Project leader must be affiliated in institutes in Japan.

2019: Project leader must be affiliated in institutes in Japanor the following countries:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Republic ofKorea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal,Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and NorthernIreland, and United States of America.

Application
2018: Applications in Japanese.

2019: Applications either in Japanese and English.
Number of applications that one person can submit
2018: No limit

2019: Maximum: 1

Number of projects that one person can participate in
2018: No limit

2019: Maximum: 3

Application• MCRP-L (Large)– OFP: up to 1,000,000 node*hour– OFP: # of nodes: up to 2,048• MCRP-M (Medium)– OFP: up to 300,000 node*hour– OFP: # of nodes: up to 1,024• MCRP-S (Small)– OFP: up to 50,000 node*hour– OFP: # of nodes: up to 1,024• MCRP-T (Trial)– OFP: up to 10,000 node*hour– OFP: # of nodes: up to 256
Projects requiring more than 1M node*hour.

HPCI

ApplicationLanguage• MCRP-L (Large)– English only

• MCRP-M (Medium)– English or Japanese• MCRP-S (Small)– English or JapaneseReviewing• MCRP-M/S– Review by Cooperative Research Committee– Committee (Internal (CCS) and external(domestic) members, Member ratio 1:2)

• MCRP-L– Review by Cooperative Research Committee+ International review
Reviewing based on the written documents only
(No presentation/interview))CC )

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2Representative (Surname, Given names):
Affiliation:
Project name(English):()(if available)(You can enlarge the following spaces, up to the maximum 6 pages in total.)2
2.1 Scientific background

Ongoing MCRP
Do you currently have ongoing MCRP in 2018?

2.2 Purpose of the Project

If Yes, fill in the following:
Name of Computer
Project codeInitially approved resources(node×hour)
Used resources so far(node×hour)OFP
xg18i0**Describe its relation to the present proposal (2019):

2.3 Expected achievements

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Research Achievements in the past
Provide the (hyper)link to your report for 2017 MCRP here, if you have.
https://www.ccs.tsukuba.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2018/05/17a**.pdf--------------------------[Yes / No]
COMA********CProject Target and Plan for 2019.4 – 2020.3

Necessity and Reason of Requested Resources

Requested resourcesnode×hour
Maximum # of nodes
Disk capacity

OFP(PACS-X)

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2019 HPCI application (http://www.hpci-office.jp/folders/english)

Have you applied for the 2019 HPCI application as a representative?

[ Yes / No ]If Yes, provide the following:

Utilization Plan for 2019.4 – 2020.3

Name of computer:
Project name (Japanese and/or English):Note:*1 Effective parallelism (parallelization ratio) is given by, in case of strong scaling,&' − &)$=,1
1*1 − !, &' − *1 − #, &)and in case of weak scaling,-C

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Preparation Status (Program development, Test operation, etc .)!&' − #&).
(1 − #)&) − (1 − !)&'

*2 Parallel efficiency is given by
23 =Provide the following information for each program.
Program name
Parallelization method[ MPI / OpenMP / MPI+OpenMP / others( ) ]Parallel efficiency
Scaling[ Strong / Weak ]measurement
Total # of threads (! ≥ #)m =n =Execution time
Tm =
sec
Tn =
Effective parallelism*1
α =Product run
Target # of threads
OFP: N=
PACS-X: N=
Parallel efficiency*2
EN =
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(If you use more than one program, copy and repeat this table.)1.
(1 − $)4 + $Similar application forms
for MCRP-M/S, but withless fields.
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FPGA part in CYGNUS• Why FPGA is necessary?
• What kind of calculation you want to use
FPGA?
• Language environments for FPGA
– Verilog HDL, OpenCL, etc.

• Preparation for FPGA
• Collaboration with computer scientists inCCS-HPC division

Approval• MCRP-L (Large)– Number of approval is limited. [ ~ 4 ]– Disapproved applications will be reconsideredin MCRP-M.

• MCRP-M (Medium)– High approval rate
– Resources could be substantially reduced.

• MCRP-S (Small)– High approval rate

2019 MCRP
• Application period– December 2018– January 2019

• Supercomputers– Oakforest-PACS (OFP)– ”CYGNUS” (CPU+FPGA)• Usage– April 2019 – March 2020
The upper limit of applied resources (1M n*h for OFP).
We encourage “heavy users” of CCS supercomputers to apply for HPCI projects too.