Dear ASC users,
the AURELEO DCGP 2025 Call is open!
Austria owns a small share of the LEONARDO DCGP (Data-Centric
General-Purpose) partition at the LEONARDO supercomputer operated by
CINECA in Bologna. The nodes of this partition are equipped with two
Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs, each with 56 cores, that are known for their
extremely high memory bandwidth. In addition, the DCGP partition uses
Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity, with smart in-network
computing acceleration engines that enable extremely low latency and
high data throughput to provide the highest HPC application performance
and scalability. The DCGP is a CPU only partition.
Test access to the LEONARDO DCGP partition is possible for active ASC
users in non-commercial projects and because of the limited amount of
resources it is suited for testing and/or benchmarking only (we can give
up to 1 million core hours per project at maximum, but it depends on the
number of incoming applications). Such a test access might be especially
useful if you have a memory-bandwidth bound application and in general
for everyone interested to test the Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs. If after
testing the DCGP partition appears to be useful to you, we can help you
to apply for a larger allocation on this partition via a standard
EuroHPC Access Call.
Active ASC users in non-commercial projects can get test access to the
LEONARDO DCGP partition by requesting a test user in the joint "DCGP
Austria 2025" project that will run 01.09.2025 - 01.09.2026 at CINECA.
In order to apply, send an email to leonardo(a)vsc.ac.at telling your VSC
project and VSC username, when and how long you would like to get
access, the amount of core hours you would like to get, and a short
description of your project and why you think that your application can
benefit from using the LEONARDO DCGP partition (max half a page).
We will check if your application is suitable for the LEONARDO DCGP
partition as well as eligibility and grant you short-term access on a
first-come first-serve basis. For this we will also ask you to register
in the CINECA User DB.
Please note, that resources on LEONARDO are given on a monthly basis and
follow a linearization policy. You should be able to start calculations
at the beginning of your requested project start date (preferably on
01.09.2025).
After your test access is over, we will ask you to provide a short
feedback (max half a page) about your experience with running your
application on the LEONARDO DCGP partition.
There is no formal deadline, we accept rolling applications until the
resources in the joint "DCGP Austria 2025" project are exhausted. The
application process is just via email to leonardo(a)vsc.ac.at as outlined
above.
If you do have some urgent demand for CPU hours on LEONARDO DCGP you can
still request some resources (a few 100 k core hours) in the running
"DCGP Austria 2024" project that will expire on 01.10.2025.
You can find all information about the AURELEO calls at:
https://asc.ac.at/access/aureleo-austrian-users-at-leonardo-supercomputer/
Best regards,
ASC team and LEONARDO - high-level support team Austria
Dear VSC-5 users,
We created a survey about the modules used by our users on VSC-5. We would ask
you to fill out said survey if you can make the time for it - it will provide
valuable information ofr us in order to set up the software stack on MUSICA.
If you plan to participate, please fill it our until 12th of September 2025.
The form does not collect any private information (like email, real name,...) -
the VSC username can be given voluntarily, as it gives us some information about
the groups that use a particular software, but it can be left blank as well.
The survey is found here:
https://forms.gle/x5B9qzavF2hNCy9M9
Many thanks,
ASC Team
--
Mag. Florian Goldenberg
ASC Research Center
Technical University of Vienna
Operngasse 11
1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 (1) 58801 420811
Mobile: +43 (0) 664 60588 4208
e-mail: florian.goldenberg(a)tuwien.ac.at
web: https://www.asc.ac.at
Bluesky @asc.ac.at
