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Just a precision: the graph I provided showed the accumulated GAUs
for the past year. Here is a more complete picture with the monthly
and 3-month evolutions, showing that the usage is strongly
increasing.<br>
<img src="cid:part1.00090501.03010402@ucar.edu" alt=""><br>
Best,<br>
Sébastien<br>
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<td>[ASP-GAU-Users] GAU allocation overshoot</td>
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<td>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:44:12 -0700</td>
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<td>Sebastien Blaise <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sblaise@ucar.edu"><sblaise@ucar.edu></a></td>
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Dear ASP GAUs users, <br>
<br>
We recently ran over our 30-day GAU allocation limit (129%), and we
are also close to the 90-day limit (101% while the hard limit is
105%). <br>
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As you can see on the following graph (available on <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cislportal.ucar.edu">https://cislportal.ucar.edu</a>),
our GAU usage increased heavily during the past months. It is a good
illustration of what was said during the Postdoc Retreat: the
characteristic turnover of ASP postdocs makes it difficult to spread
the usage over the year. <br>
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As the ASP GAUs cannot be used anymore, I encourage you to use your
division GAUs for the rest of the month. You just need to change the
account number from 86850055 to your division account in your
submission scripts.<br>
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To avoid blocking the ASP GAU account once again, we must use the
wiki (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/ASPGAU/Home">https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/ASPGAU/Home</a>)
to indicate our needs for the upcoming month and be sure to not
overshoot the limit:
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<li>On the 1st of the month, an e-mail will be send reminding
people to make their monthly request and indicating the GAU
statistics for the previous month.</li>
<li>By the 7th of the month, each user should indicate their
request for the month. NOTE: If you will not use any GAUs, then
put a 0 in the table, so we know that you have made your
request. You can not request more than your monthly allotment in
the initial request.</li>
<li>On the 8th of the month, an e-mail will be sent indicating the
GAU requests for the month and the additional number of GAUs
that are available. These can be claimed on the wiki in a first
come first served basis by adding additional GAUs to your
request for the current month. Please update the monthly total,
so everyone knows how many GAUs remain unallocated.</li>
</ol>
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As the limits are based on 30-day and 90-day running means, we may
still be limited in February, but I think that the situation will
become normal again in March if we follow the guidelines of the
wiki.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Sébastien<br>
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Sébastien Blaise, PhD.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe)
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307 (USA)
Phone : +1 303-497-2884 Fax : +1 303-497-2483
E-mail : <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sblaise@ucar.edu">sblaise@ucar.edu</a>
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