ISC, RIKEN

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We will hold a user meeting about shared use computers (HOKUSAI BigWaterfall/SailingShip) and its beneficiary pays.

Supercomputer HOKUSAI GreatWave is scheduled to cease operation at the end of March 2020 and supercomputer HOKUSAI BigWaterfall will continue to operate. Data Science Infrastructure HOKUSAI SailingShip has ended the bid opening, and will start test operation from around June 2020 and regular operation from October 2020.

In addition, beneficiary pays will be charged for the shared use computer from October 2020. We will explain about user fee table as it has been established.

Date: March 24
Time: From 10 a.m. to 12 a.m.
Place: Large meeting room in 2F of Welfare and Conference Building WAKO
Language: Japanese
Registration is not needed.

To prevent infection and the spread of the novel coronavirus, the video conferences using Webex will be the main method. You can connect to the video conference from PC or polycom. Contact hpc@riken.jp for the connection destination and connection method.

If it is difficult to participate the video conference, please come to the place.

 Please download from the following handout.
handout_publish.zip

Questions and answers at the meeting can be downloaded here.
User_meeting_shared_use_computerQA2003.pdf

Contents

1. Outline of Data Science Infrastructure
2. Current plans for shared use computers and beneficiary pays after the next fiscal year

Contact

Information and Communication Infrastructure Section, Information Systems Division, Head Office for Information Systems and Cybersecurity
hpc@riken.jp

Accepting period

• Since the application system will be closed automatically at the deadline, please complete submitting process including uploading the files in advance with a margin by the deadline.
• You have to submit the Usage Report of FY2019 to apply for FY2020 project.

Link

Submissions of the usage report of FY2019 and the application for General Use project of FY2020 of shared use computer are going to start around January 23th.

Here, the shared use computer is used as a general name of HOKUSAI and the RIKEN Data Science Infrastructure scheduled to be introduced around June 2020. Since RIKEN’s computing resources that will be developed in the future are not limited to supercomputers, the names have been given a general name so that users will be more aware of them. For details, please refer to the materials of the user meeting about shared use computer on September 18, 2019.

http://i.intra.riken.jp/en/news/2019-09-18-n1/

In this application, projects for the HOKUSAI BigWaterfall in FY2020 will be recruited in the same way as before. We will inform you about the usage report, the application, the forms, and the submission procedure at that time. The application period is going to be about three weeks.

A usage fee will be introduced around October 2020 for the use of the shared use computer. The use of the new RIKEN Data Science Infrastructure will be charged in principle, but will not be screened. How to use HOKUSAI BigWaterfall in FY2020 is basically the same as before, but after the introduction of the usage fee, the usage fee will be set in part such as priority job execution and use of storage in the /data area. Specific usage methods and usage fees will be announced by the end of this fiscal year, and a user meeting will be held.