Lightning CPU Allocation, Disk Quota Allocation and Contribution Policies
                       HPC Partnership
                        Glenn Luecke
                       March 20, 2008


   The following were the policies discussed and approved at the 3/20/2008  
meeting of the HPC Partnership.  

CPU Allocation Policy
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   Every six months faculty in the HPC Partnership are given a new allocation
 based on the amount of money they paid to the Partnership relative to the
 total contributions. New allocations are made every six months on April
 28 and October 28. Unused allocations are not carried over to new
 allocation periods.

   The following illustrates how new allocations are made. Suppose a 
 Partner paid $10,000 and the total contributions for lightning are 
 $700,000. Then every 6 months, this person will be allocated 1/70 
 of the total CPU time on lightning for those six months. Since there 
 are 144*4 = 576 processors on the 144 compute nodes and since there are 
 24*365/2 = 4,380 hours in 6 months, this means that this person's group 
 will be allocated 4,380*576/70 = 36,041 CPU hours every six months.  
 The minimum contribution to join the HPC Partnership is $10,000.  Several 
 faculty have contributed $100,000 plus.  In the example above, the 6 month 
 allocation for someone contributing $100,000 would be 360,410 CPU hours.

Disk Quota Allocation Policy
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  HPC Partners contributing $10,000 receive disk storage of 160GB of permanent
 storage and access to 2 TB of shared scratch storage is included while the
 grant is in effect.  Partners contributing more will receive
 correspondingly more permanent storage.  For example, those contributing
 $100,000 will receive 1600GB of storage for their group.  Those needing
 additional permanent and/or temporary storage should talk with Glenn Luecke
 about how to accomplish this.

Contribution Policy
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  The minimum contribution to join the HPC Partnership is $10,000.