references for teragrid proposal

[Barry Smith]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Samar Khatiwala wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I am writing a proposal for a largish amount of compute time allocation on the
> NSF teragrid
> (http://www.ci-partnership.org/Allocations/). This is for a "Medium Resource
> Allocation" (MRAC)
> in case you are familiar with the procedure.
> 
> My proposed research uses my tracer advection-diffusion code based entirely on
> PETSc, and I want to make
> the case that the teragrid machines are well suited to running this software.
> Can someone please suggest
> references I can cite that will help me make a strong case? (FYI: Sparse
> mat-vec is probably the most
> often used operation in my code.)
> 
> The machines I plan on using are:
> 
> TACC PowerEdge 1955 (Lonestar) : Xeon, EM64T, dual CPU (dual-core) 2.6 GHz,
> InfiniBand Switch
> NCSA IA-64 Cluster (Mercury): Itanium2, 1.5 GHz, Myrinet
> NCSA IA-64 Linux Cluster (Abe): Intel 64, 2.3 GHz, InfiniBand
> SDSC IA-64 Cluster: Itanium2, 1.5 GHz, Myrinet
> 
> (Hardware details are here:
> http://www.teragrid.org/userinfo/hardware/resources.php)
> 
> Thanks very much
> 
> Samar
> 
> 
>