Samples of Well-Written MRAC Proposals

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Peer-review board members thought that these were excellent examples of how an allocation request should be presented. Some things noted by the review board were:

• The proposer summarized his/her research in context of the current state-of-the-art and outlined the computational algorithms and how these relate to the various subsections of his research.
• The reviewers were provided sufficient information, but not overwhelmed by details.
• Justification for the service unit request was clear and closely coupled to each of the computational experiments. As such, if the board needed to reduce the original request, the reduction could have been done on a rational basis with minimum disruption to the investigator.
• A summary of previous support was included which clearly stated how the previous computational results have effected the latest service unit request.

The following sample proposals are arranged by Field of Science (FOS):

Astronomical Sciences

PI: Robert F. Stein, Michigan State University
Project Title: Supergranulation Scale Solar Magneto-Convection
Primary FOS: Astronomical Sciences
Secondary FOS: Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics

Atmospheric Sciences

PI: Ching-Long Lin, University of Iowa
Project Title: Four Dimensional Data Assimilation of Coherent Structures in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Primary FOS: Atmospheric Sciences
Secondary FOS: Meteorology

Biological & Environmental Systems

PI: Jacobo Bielak, Carnegie Mellon University
Project Title: Large-Scale Modeling of Earthquake Gound Motion in Large Basins
Primary FOS: Earthquake Hazard Mitigation
Secondary FOS: Advanced Scientific Computing

Chemistry

PI: Charles Doubleday, Columbia University
Project Title: Classical Trajectory Studies of Biradicals
Primary FOS: Chemistry
Secondary FOS: Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry; Physical Chemistry

Engineering

PI: Philippe Guebelle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Project Title: Large Scale Simulation of Dynamic Fracture Events
Primary FOS: Mechanical and Structural Systems
Secondary FOS: Mechanics and Materials

Microelectronic Information Processing Systems

PI: Mary K. Vernon, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Project Title: POEMS: Performance-Oriented End-to-end Modeling Studies of Large Complex Parallel Computations
Primary FOS: Microelectronic Information Processing Systems
Secondary FOS: Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

Physics

PI: Walter Wilcox, Baylor University
Project Title: Hadron Structure and Lattice QCD
Primary FOS: Theoretical Physics