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Samples of Well-Written Proposals (MRAC)

Peer-review board members expressed the view that these were excellent examples of how an allocation request should be presented and suggested. Some things noted by the review board were:

  • The proposer summarized his/her research in context of the current state-of-the-art and outlined the computational algorithms and how these relate to the various subsections of his research. 
  • The reviewers were provided sufficient information, but not overwhelmed by details.
  • Justification for the service unit request was clear and closely coupled to each of the computational experiments. As such, if the board needed to reduce the original request, the reduction could have been done on a rational basis with minimum disruption to the investigator.
  • A summary of previous support was included which clearly stated how the previous computational results have effected the latest service unit request.
 

Medium Resource Allocations Committee (formerly AAB) Sample Proposals

The followiing sample proposals are arranged by Field of Science (FOS):

Astronomical Sciences
Name: Stein, Robert F.
Institution: Michigan State University
Project Title: Supergranulation Scale Solar Magneto-Convection
Primary FOS: Astronomical Sciences
Secondary FOS: Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics

 

Atmospheric Sciences
Name: Lin, Ching-Long
Institution: University of Iowa
Project Title: Four Dimensional Data Assimilation of Coherent Structures in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Primary FOS:  Atmospheric Sciences
Secondary FOS: Meteorology

 

Biological & Critical Systems
Name: Bielak, Jacobo
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Project Title: Large-Scale Modeling of Earthquake Gound Motion in Large Basins
Primary FOS:  Earthquake Hazard Mitigation
Secondary FOS: Advanced Scientific Computing

 

Chemistry
PI: Doubleday, Charles
Institution: Columbia University
Project Title: Classical Trajectory Studies of Biradicals
Primary FOS: Chemistry
Secondary FOS: Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry; Physical Chemistry

 

Engineering
PI: Geubelle, Philippe
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Project Title: Large Scale Simulation of Dynamic Fracture Events
Primary FOS: Mechanical and Structural Systems
Secondary FOS: Mechanics and Materials

 

Microelectronic Information Processing Systems
PI: Vernon, Mary K.
Institution: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title: POEMS: Performance-Oriented End-to-end Modeling Studies of Large Complex Parallel Computations
Primary FOS: Microelectronic Information Processing Systems
Secondary FOS: Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

 

Physics
PI: Wilcox, Walter
Institution: Baylor University
Project Title: Hadron Structure and Lattice QCD
FOS: Theoretical Physics