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2020-10-16T14:04:31Z

‎Gaining Access

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2020-01-02T16:43:20Z

‎Background

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2020-01-02T16:41:32Z

‎Gaining Access

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‎Resource Allocations

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‎Gaining Access

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‎Abel Usage Statistics

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‎Abel Usage Statistics

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‎Abel Usage Statistics

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‎Resource Allocations

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‎Gaining Access

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 For '''Saga''', there is an on-line account application form at https://www.metacenter.no/user/application/.
-Please request association with Notur project <tt>NN9447K</tt>.
+Please request association with Notur project <tt>NN9447K</tt>
 It will usually take a day or two before account activation is complete, and you will receive status updates by email and text messages.
 Stephan Oepen (UiO) is the Norwegian point of contact for these projects, but please direct

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 The NLPL initiative is supported by CSC and Sigma2, the Finnish and Norwegian national e-infrastructure providers, respectively.
-The project has received computing allocations on the Taito (Finland) and
+The project has received computing allocations on the Puhti (Finland; the successor to Taito) and
-Abel (Norway) superclusters, which can be used by all project members.
+Saga (Norway; successor to Abel) superclusters, which can be used by all project members.
-Additionally, moderate ‘on-line’ storage allocations are provided on both machines (accessible as ‘/projects/nlpl/’ on Abel, and ‘/proj/nlpl/’ on Taito),
+Additionally, moderate ‘on-line’ storage allocations are provided on both machines
-as well as a more generous storage allocation of 100 terabytes (in mid-2017) on NIRD.
+(accessible as <code>/projappl/nlpl/</code> on Puhti and <code>/cluster/shared/nlpl/</code> on Saga),
 = Gaining Access =

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 For the time being, there is no synchronization of user accounts across countries.
-Thus, project members need to obtain accounts separately for Abel and Taito.
+Thus, project members need to obtain accounts separately for Saga and Puhti.
-In mid-2017 at least, staff and students at project member sites and associate partners
+In mid-2017 at least, staff and students at project member sites (and associate partners)
 are welcome to use the NLPL virtual laboratory.
 (Sub-)Allocation decisions (within NLPL) are made by the
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 thus, please make sure to make contact with us before submitting account applications.
-For '''Abel''' and '''Saga''', there is an on-line account application form at https://www.metacenter.no/user/application/.
+For '''Saga''', there is an on-line account application form at https://www.metacenter.no/user/application/.
 Please request association with Notur project <tt>NN9447K</tt>.
 It will usually take a day or two before account activation is complete, and you will receive status updates by email and text messages.
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 [http://lists.nlpl.eu/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure infrastructure task force].
-For '''Taito''' and '''Puhti''', there is an on-line account application form at https://sui.csc.fi/web/guest/csc-customer-registration/.
+For '''Puhti''', there is an on-line account application form at https://sui.csc.fi/web/guest/csc-customer-registration/.
 Martin Matthiesen will need to approve NLPL-related account requests and manages
 allocation ‘projects’ (one per site).
-Stephan Oepen manages access rights to the on-line storage on Taito (‘<tt>/proj/nlpl/</tt>’).
+Stephan Oepen manages access rights to the community directory on Puhti (‘<tt>/projappl/nlpl/</tt>’).
 For all technical questions, please contact the NLPL
 [http://lists.nlpl.eu/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure infrastructure task force].

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 = Resource Allocations =
-At present (mid-2017), there are different allocation mechanisms for the two systems.
+At present (mid-2019), there are different allocation mechanisms for the two systems.
-For Abel, allocations are made by the Norwegian Resource Allocation Committee for six-month periods, which start on April 1 and October 1, each year.
+For Abel (and Saga), allocations are made by the Norwegian Resource Allocation Committee for six-month periods, which start on April 1 and October 1, each year.
 NLPL received an allocation of 500,000 cpu hours for the allocation period <tt>2016.2</tt>; of these, less than one third had been used by March 2017,
 and the allocation of period <tt>2017.1</tt> (lasting until the end of September 2017) was reduced (from the original estimates, in mutual agreement)
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 All NLPL project members share these allocations and, over time, will need to find ways of using and distributing these resources fairly.
-For Taito, each NLPL member site can be allocated its ‘own’ project, and CSC tends to make smaller allocations more frequently.
+For Taito (and Puhti), each NLPL member site can be allocated its ‘own’ project, and CSC tends to make smaller allocations more frequently.
 The Steering Group has yet to develop a policy for how to make sure that the sum of these micro-allocations fit (fairly) within the bounds
-of the ‘blanket’ allocation of three million core hours over three years granted to NLPL as the CSC in-kind contribution.
+of the ‘blanket’ allocation of three million core hours per year granted to NLPL as the CSC in-kind contribution, but
 = Taito Usage Statistics =

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 thus, please make sure to make contact with us before submitting account applications.
-For '''Abel''', there is an on-line account application form at https://www.metacenter.no/user/application/.
+For '''Abel''' and '''Saga''', there is an on-line account application form at https://www.metacenter.no/user/application/.
 Please request association with Notur project <tt>NN9447K</tt>.
 It will usually take a day or two before account activation is complete, and you will receive status updates by email and text messages.
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 [http://lists.nlpl.eu/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure infrastructure task force].
-For '''Taito''', there is an on-line account application form at https://sui.csc.fi/web/guest/csc-customer-registration/.
+For '''Taito''' and '''Puhti''', there is an on-line account application form at https://sui.csc.fi/web/guest/csc-customer-registration/.
 Martin Matthiesen will need to approve NLPL-related account requests and manages
 allocation ‘projects’ (one per site).

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 | NN9107K || DELPH-IN21 || Stephan Oepen ||  8 || 1,981,377 || 10 || 214,644 || ||
 |-
-| '''Total''' || || || '''15''' || '''2,183,457''' || '''26''' || '''418,234''' || ''41'' || ''960,000''
+| '''Total''' || || || '''15''' || '''2,183,457''' || '''26''' || '''418,234''' || '''41''' || '''960,000'''
 |}

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 ! Id !! Project !! Principal Investigator !! Users 2017 !! Hours 2017 !! Users 2018 !! Hours 2018 !! Users 2019 !! Hours 2019
 |-
-| NN9447K || NLPL || Stephan Oepen ||  7 || 202,080 || 16 || 203,590 || 420,000 + ?,???,??? || max(41, ??)
+| NN9447K || NLPL || Stephan Oepen ||  7 || 202,080 || 16 || 203,590 || 41 || 960,000
 |-
 | NN9107K || DELPH-IN21 || Stephan Oepen ||  8 || 1,981,377 || 10 || 214,644 || ||
 |-
-| '''Total''' || || || '''15''' || '''2,183,457''' || '''26''' || '''418,234''' || ||
+| '''Total''' || || || '''15''' || '''2,183,457''' || '''26''' || '''418,234''' || ''41'' || ''960,000''
 |}