LiU-course: Project Course in Applied Physics, CDIO TFYA99
Abstract
TFYA99 is an undergraduate project course given for, primarily, civil engineering program students at the very end of their education. It offers a computational project run for 1-2 small student groups. The course runs all of HT2025 (which includes some time into January). The students doing the computational project in this course develop a molecular dynamics code and run it on a fairly large data set. Last year the students performed these runs on Sigma using allocation LiU-compute--2024-33.
This year we have 2 project group with in total 12 students.
Total resource usage is quite limited, but depends on the number of students and their skills. Last year with 9 students we used 8.7 kcore-h (but that was the largest use the course has seen...). The use was also very biased towards only December.
We'd be happy for an allocation starting as soon as possible (but at least Oct 1 would be nice). A conservative ramp-up corresponding to use we've seen would be: 1 kcore-h Sept and Oct; then 2.5 kcoreh for Nov; and then 5 kcore-h for December. (But just setting it to 5 kcore-h/month and allow us to under-use the allocation except for in December is of course also fine.)
I realize allocations are only given until dec right now, but for courses this is a strange cutoff. It would be nice to confirm Sigma:s existence until end-of-term Autumn 2025 which is Jan 17, and extend our allocation to that date.
