Scaling Advantage Program

To assist BigBen users in the development of production codes and problems that will effectively and efficiently use at least 1000 processors on each single job, the Scaling Advantage Program works as follows:

Interested users contact remarks@psc.edu with a brief request, describing the scientific problem that requires at least 1000 processors, the current state of the code (e.g. "now used on up to 128 processors"), how much development time they feel will be needed to make the code scale up, and whether they would like a PSC consultant to help with the development work.

A PSC consultant follows up with the user to find out if they are ready to conduct benchmarking, debugging and test runs.

Benchmarking, debugging, development, and test runs agreed upon by this process will be discounted by 50%. The assigned PSC consultant will assure that these runs execute expeditiously, arranging for reservations if required. The assigned consultant helps the user troubleshoot problems, provides advice on the use of debugging and performance analysis tools and procedures, and offers suggestions on fixes and optimizations. This phase is expected to take no longer than 4 weeks for each selected project.