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

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Stowe Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 2:12 PM To: Nick Holford Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NMusers] CycleCloud BigScience Challenge giving away ~8-hours on 30000 core cluster for research Hi Nick, 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/ 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 <tel:%2B64%289%29923-6730> fax:+64(9)373-7090 <tel:%2B64%289%29373-7090> mobile:+64(21)46 23 53 <tel:%2B64%2821%2946%2023%2053> 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