Re: CycleCloud BigScience Challenge giving away ~8-hours on 30000 core cluster for research

On 3/11/11 11:29 PM, "Nick Holford" <[email protected]> wrote: Jason, If I was a winner of your competition how would I go about using NONMEM? How do you manage NONMEM licensing on you cloud cluster? What NONMEM license fee would one have to pay for 30000 cores? Nick On 2/11/2011 2:19 p.m., Jason Stowe wrote: > Hi all, > > Long time reader, first time poster. > > Cycle recently announced that we're giving away the equivalent of > 8-hrs on a 30000 core CycleCloud HPC cluster for a grand prize winner > in the CycleCloud BigScience Challenge. Up to five finalists will win > 4 hours on 3000 core clusters as well. The Compute time is to benefit > academic and non-profit researchers that are doing science which could > benefit humanity. > > Some current applicants are in life sciences and CycleCloud currently > supports reliable/large-scale clusters running NONMEM for Top 5 > Pharma, so I wanted to welcome more researchers in the NONMEM > community to enter. > > We describe the challenge and why we're excited about it here: > http://bit.ly/BigScience > > The application process is simply answering 4 questions (takes less > than half an hour): State who you are, what is your research, why it > is important, and how you currently run computation. The applicatiopn > is available here: > http://cyclecomputing.com/big-science-challenge/overview > > So far, response has been great, and Inside HPC covered descriptions > of some of the recent applications we've received: > http://insidehpc.com/2011/10/27/24209/ > http://blog.cyclecomputing.com/ > > Submissions are due by November 7th, so submit early and we hope to > help some of you get some BigScience done quickly. > > Best, > Jason > > -- > > > ================================== > Jason A. Stowe > cell: 607.227.9686 > main: 888.292.5320 > > http://twitter.com/jasonastowe/ > http://twitter.com/cyclecomputing/ > > Cycle Computing, LLC > Leader in Open Compute Solutions for Clouds, Servers, and Desktops > Enterprise Condor Support and Management Tools > > http://www.cyclecomputing.com > http://www.cyclecloud.com > -- Nick Holford, Professor Clinical Pharmacology Dept Pharmacology& Clinical Pharmacology University of Auckland,85 Park Rd,Private Bag 92019,Auckland,New Zealand tel:+64(9)923-6730 fax:+64(9)373-7090 mobile:+64(21)46 23 53 email: [email protected] http://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/sms/pharmacology/holford David Foster, PhD Lecturer School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences Playford Building Room P4-08 City East Campus University of South Australia Adelaide SA 5000 CRICOS Provider Number: 00121B Phone: +61 8 8302 2055 Fax: +61 8 8302 2389 Email: [email protected] Note: This message (including any attachments) is confidential and is intended only for the individual(s) named. If you have received it by mistake, please let the sender know by e-mail reply and delete it from your system. P Please consider the environment before printing this email