NPPS Leadership Team

[Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>]

Because I answered mildly favorable to the end results of this ASCR CS 'X-Stack' call potentially being relevant to us, I'm getting drawn into meetings about the proposal. Not going to get drawn in very far. If anyone is interested in following it closely please let me know.

  Torre

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: DOE to Provide $12 Million for Research on Adapting Scientific Software to Run on Next-Generation Supercomputers
To: Kleese Van Dam, Kerstin <kleese AT bnl.gov>
Cc: Kleese Van Dam, Kerstin <kleese AT bnl.gov>

Hi Kerstin,

Yes I think there's potential for both the testing and model translation areas to be of interest to ATLAS and DUNE, and possibly to the others as well particularly for ML acceleration.

  Torre

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 3:44 PM Kleese Van Dam, Kerstin <kleese AT bnl.gov> wrote:

Hi Torre,

Yes, this is a computer science oriented call, never the less any project will need driving science challenges, success metrics and a user community that evaluates their results in their environment. Is there interest in Atlas, Belle, DUNE or RHIC to participate in that capacity? The benefit could be better tools for the future that fit into these quite specific software development and execution environments.

Best wishes,

Kerstin

 

Kerstin Kleese van Dam

Director Computational Science Initiative

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Building 725, room 2-127B

PO Box 5000

Upton, New York, 11973-5000

 

Phone 631 344-6019

Cell 509 221-0758

Kleese AT bnl.gov

 

 

From: "wenaus AT gmail.com" <wenaus AT gmail.com>
Date: Friday, January 29, 2021 at 12:31 PM
To: "Kleese Van Dam, Kerstin" <kleese AT bnl.gov>
Subject: Re: DOE to Provide $12 Million for Research on Adapting Scientific Software to Run on Next-Generation Supercomputers

 

Hi Kerstin,

Thanks, we've started discussing this in US ATLAS, Paolo has commented...

 

I don't think we can have a US ATLAS proposal: the FOA considers out of scope proposals for

system-specific, discipline-specific and/or application-specific approaches that do not generalize to multiple applications or multiple target platforms;

 

At LBL the previous round of X-Stack went entirely to CS types. They had HEP use cases from cosmology IIRC. I believe that projects like harvester, raythena, and xroot/xcache would be in scope. 

 

  Torre

 

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:54 AM Kleese Van Dam, Kerstin <kleese AT bnl.gov> wrote:

Dear all,

DOE ASCR has issued the following call for proposals: DOE to Provide $12 Million for Research on Adapting Scientific Software to Run on Next-Generation Supercomputers, the call itself can be found here: https://science.osti.gov/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2021/SC_FOA_0002460.pdf

 

Pre-proposal deadline is: March 1, 2021 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Each Lab can only submit 2 pre-proposals, 1 per PI, for this reason we will have a down selection at the lab level:

• By Friday February 5^th please submit a pre-proposal following the attached format to CSIProposals AT bnl.gov
• We will notify you about the down select result by Wednesday February 10^th
• Encouraged pre-proposals will be due for red team review by Friday February 19^th

 

Many thanks,

Kerstin

 

Kerstin Kleese van Dam

Director Computational Science Initiative

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Building 725, room 2-127B

PO Box 5000

Upton, New York, 11973-5000

 

Phone 631 344-6019

Cell 509 221-0758

Kleese AT bnl.gov

 

 

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