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TeraGrid Resource Advance Reservation Form

Use this form to request advance reservations on one or more of the listed TeraGrid resources.

This form may be used to request a cross-site or a single-site reservation.

Please use the Additional Comments section of the form to indicate any special grid, application, or system software requirements.

New reservation advanced notice: at least one calendar week whenever possible.
Advanced request for reservation changes: at least 48 hours before the scheduled start of the run.
Available times: normal working hours for the requested centers are Monday through Friday, 8 AM-5 PM local time (except holidays) at all sites.
Supervised jobs: Please specify whether your job requires live supervision by TeraGrid staff.
- TeraGrid system administrator will be present
- TeraGrid consultant will be on call to assist with the run
- member of user's project team must be available to work with TeraGrid staff should problems arise
Your requested time may be altered depending on staff availability; you will be informed of any scheduling changes via email.
Processor availability: depends upon current/predicted user load; check the TeraGrid System Events Calendar to view scheduled reservations.
Maximum number of CPUs:
- NCAR: Frost (2048 CPU)
- NCSA: IA-64 (1774 CPU) ; Altix (1024 CPU) ; Tungsten (2560 CPU) ; Copper (384 CPU) ; Abe (9600 CPU)
- ORNL: Xeon (32 CPU)
- PSC: XT3 (4096 CPU); Altix 4700 (2 CPU)
- Purdue: Lear (1024 CPU)
- SDSC: TG IA-64 (524 CPU); DataStar p690 (160 CPU); DataStar p655 (2112 CPU)
- TACC: Lonestar (256 dual-core CPU); Maverick (64 CPU)
- UC/ANL: IA-64 (124 CPU); IA-32 (192 CPU)
References
- Consult User Guides for relevant platform before starting a run
- Helpful TeraGrid User Support sections:
Checking Reservations: Users can check their reservations at NCSA using the show_res command.

All fields are required except Additional Comments.

PI INFORMATION

First Name

Last Name

Phone

Email

TeraGrid Project Number (Charge Number) (optional)

e.g., TG-XYZ12345

The TeraGrid Project Number is the string "TG-" prepended to the Proposal Number from the letter of acceptance for your allocation request. (See the Usage page for more info.)

USER INFORMATION

First Name

Last Name

Phone

Email

User name(s)

RUN SUPERVISION INFORMATION

Job Supervision

Please select whether you would like TeraGrid staff to help with any issues that may arise during your run. Note that staff are not available outside of typical business hours (8 am–5 pm site time) or on weekends. By checking "YES", you ensure that a system administrator will be present and a consultant will be on call to assist with problems. If you request job supervision, a member of your project team must be available to work with TeraGrid staff should any problems arise.

Yes, my run requires site supervision.

No, site supervision will not be required for this job.

NOTE: Please enter the desired reservation date/time in your local timezone.

Start Date

Start Time (24-hour)

End Date

End Time (24-hour)

Time Zone

Select your local time zone

Enter the number of processors for each machine that will be used in the run

(view site specification details for additional information on these machines):

The following systems do not support advance reservation: IU Big Red, SDSC Blue Gene, Purdue Condor Pool, NCSA Copper.

Number of Processors	Site	Machine
	NCAR	Frost
	NCSA	SGI Altix (Cobalt)
	NCSA	IA-64
	NCSA	Xeon IA-32 Linux Cluster (Tungsten)
	NCSA	IBM p690 (Copper)
	NCSA	64 Linux Cluster (Abe)
	ORNL	Intel Xeon
	PSC	Altix 4700 (Pople)
	PSC	Cray XT3 (Big Ben)
	Purdue	EM64T Cluster (Lear)
	SDSC	IBM P690 (DataStar)
	SDSC	IBM P655 (DataStar)
	SDSC	IA-64
	TACC	EM64T Linux Cluster (Lonestar)
	TACC	Sun Large_Scale Visualization (Maverick)
	UC/ANL	IA-32 This machine contains the visualization nodes. Each node has two processors but only one graphics card. If you plan to use the UC/ANL accelerated graphics capabilities, request twice as many CPUs as graphics cards, and use only one processor per node.
	UC/ANL	IA-64

Additional Comments (optional)

Use this field to indicate any special grid, application, or system software requirements.

Click "Continue to confirmation page" to review your reservation: