ESP
Early Science Program (ESP) is an Argonne National Laboratory program that provides computational scientists with access to leadership class DOE computing facilities.
ALCF
Argonne’s Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will install Mira, a next generation Blue Gene system (BG/Q), in 2012. The ALCF’s stated requirements for the 10 petaflops system include approximately 0.75 million cores and 0.75 petabytes of memory, with 16 cores and 16 gigabytes of memory per node.
The Early Science phase of the project to bring Mira to production status is a period of months between when the machine is first accepted and when the system moves into full production. During this time, the facility “shakes down” the system with the help of a small community of users running production applications: the Early Science projects. This period provides projects with a significant head start for adapting to the new machine and access to substantial computational time. During this shakedown period, users will assist in identifying the root causes of any system instabilities, and will work with ALCF staff to help develop solutions. The ALCF is organizing this activity as the Early Science Program (ESP).
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