N8 CIR Bede Application

Your Details

1. Please enter your name.

2. Are you applying to use Bede as part of a pilot project ahead of a formal EPSRC call?

No

Yes

3. Which institution or organisation do you work for?

4. Please enter your institutional e-mail address.

5. Please enter a contact phone number.

6. Please enter your job title.

7. What is the duration of your contract? Only applicants with a funded staff position for a minimum of 12 months at an N8 institution from the date of application may apply using this form.

8. Have you discussed your application with your local RSE Bede contact

Yes

No

9. Please enter a link to your research / staff page.

Your Research Details

In order to evaluate applications it is useful to know how access to the N8 HPC resources will empower your research.

Please enter a Project Title, a maximum of 64 characters.

11. Please give a short explanation of your project and how using the computational facilities will benefit your research.

12. Please enter a project description (approx. 125 words) suitable for a general audience. If your project is approved, this description will be placed on the N8 CIR website.

13. Please tell us which of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) areas best represents your research. Please select one checkbox from the list below.

REF Group A

Clinical Medicine

Public Health Health Services and Primary Care

Allied Health Professions Dentistry Nursing and Pharmacy

Psychology Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Biological Sciences

Agriculture Food and Veterinary Sciences

REF Group B

Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences

Chemistry

Physics

Mathematical Sciences

Computer Science and Informatics

Engineering

REF Group C

Architecture Built Environment and Planning

Geography and Environmental Studies

Archaeology

Economics and Econometrics

Business and Management Studies

Law

Politics and International Studies

Social Work and Social Policy

Sociology

Anthropology and Development Studies

Education

Sport and Exercise Sciences Leisure and Tourism

REF Group D

Area Studies

Modern Languages and Linguistics

English Language and Literature

History

Classics

Philosophy

Theology and Religious Studies

Art and Design: History Practice and Theory

Music Drama Dance Performing Arts Film and Screen Studies

Communication Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management

14. Please list any existing N8 CIR projects, along with their project codes, (including applications being processed) that you currently have (one per line).

15. Please tick all relevant boxes regarding your research funding for this project.

AHRC

STFC

BBSRC

Charity

EPSRC

European (EU)

ESRC

Industry

MRC

University

NERC

Other

If Other, please list below (one per line).

16. Regarding impact, does your project involve any external collaboration? This includes working with public bodies, industry, charities, communities or academics that are not in your institution and may be national or international.

Yes

No

If yes, please provide the names of the organisations (one per line).

Your Computational Requirements

17. Please describe how you would use the facility and why you feel the Bede system is particularly suitable.

18. Which codes do you intend to use? Please give a web URL or reference where possible.

If there are any licence issues please let us know.

19. Which compilers, libraries, debuggers or profilers would you like to use?

20. Do you require support to start using the facility? Ongoing support such as trouble shooting is available, but it helps our planning if you could indicate any initial help you expect to require with getting started on the facility.

Very likely

Likely

Neutral

Unlikely

Very Unlikely

21. Please give details on your expected usage of the system e.g. total hours of use, size and length of your typical jobs or number of nodes concurrently utilised.

Your local RSE will be able to help you complete this section.

Number of GPUs per job

Wallclock time per job (hours)

Memory required per GPU, per job (GBytes)

Amount of data written to disk per job (GBytes)

Number of such jobs/per month

Total number of such jobs

Number of users for your project

22. Please indicate whether you are aware of the Research Data Management (RDM) policy/ guidelines of your institution

Yes

No

23. Please indicate the amount of non-parallel filestore you require (for maintaining code etc). Please enter number of GBytes of normal usage.

24. The Lustre filestore is available for parallel IO. If you require to use this, please indicate the amount required. Please note that this area is not backed up. Please enter number of GBytes of normal usage.

Your Obligations

25. As a condition of access, we require PIs to complete the annual survey including providing details of any publications produced as a result of access to Bede and, if requested, to assist with producing a short case study. Do you agree to these conditions?*

Yes

No

26. Each publication produced as a result of research undertaken on the N8 CIR facility must quote the acknowledgement given below and contact: enquiries@n8cir.org.uk to give details of the publication.

This work made use of the facilities of the N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR) provided and funded by the N8 research partnership and EPSRC (Grant No. EP/T022167/1).

Please see https://n8cir.org.uk/about/acknowledgement/ for more information.

Do you agree to these conditions?

Yes

No