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

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:59 AM, 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 Hi Nick, Unfortunately, I can't speak to an individuals user's NONMEM license. We do have commercial clients running NONMEM on CycleCloud clusters at varying scales. A winner with appropriate licensing doesn't need to run 8 hours on 30k cores, you could also run for 24 hours on 10000 cores, etc. If your license relates to compilation vs. execution, or if you have a site-wide license, we can't say, so you'll need to look at your license to deal with that. Perhaps someone from Icon could talk about this kind of non-profit licensing? Thanks, Jason 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/ 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/jasonastowe/ >> http://twitter.com/**cyclecomputing/ 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 > > -- ================================== 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