LCRC Project Reports Are Due Sept. 4, 2026
If you are the PI for an LCRC project (normal LCRC users can ignore this email), you are required to submit concise reports of the accomplishments for each of your LCRC projects (separately) during the 2026 fiscal year (Oct 2025-Sept 2026). These reports are very important. They document the impact of LCRC as a lab-wide facility for enabling research, and they are required to continue your project into FY2027. While writing your report, please remember that most of the audience, while technical, will not be expert in your field. Your project report(s) are due by Friday, September 4th, 2026 at 5:00 pm CDT. Material from selected reports may appear online or in electronic posters.
Reminder: do not include sensitive, proprietary, export-controlled, or classified information in your report. Here is a sample project report that contains all the elements we request at an appropriate level of detail.
You can submit your project report(s) by logging into the LCRC accounts page as we now have the yearly reporting built directly into the accounts page:
https://accounts.lcrc.anl.gov
On the first page after logging in, you should see list of projects that need a report. However, we noticed unexpected behavior during testing where the popup window showing the list of required project reports may not show up when you first log in. As a workaround, you can click on another tab (like Reporting) and then click on ‘Account Information” and the yellow pop-up box with the required reports will show. Alternatively, the navigation sidebar now has a link labeled 'Reporting' that has your list of missing, saved and submitted reports that you can access for each of your projects. For each report, you must complete all required fields marked in red and are encouraged to complete the other fields as well.
We recommend that you first draft the prose sections in a text editor and then paste them into the web form. You cannot attach a pdf/doc file of your research accomplishments or submit documents to LCRC in any other electronic communication such as outside URLs. Such reports are unacceptable, and the project report will be deemed incomplete. Once all the required fields are completed, the PI can 'Submit' the report to LCRC or "Save for later". The "Save for later" button is useful if a PI wants to add any additional information (such as publications) later before submitting the final version. Please note that a report is only received on our end once it is fully submitted. Once the report for a project is submitted you will see an acknowledgement saying, "Report Submitted <Date> < xx days> remaining to edit submission". No separate email/acknowledgement is sent to the PIs.
Also, please include a list of publications, presentations and funding that are connected in some way to your use of LCRC, for the current year (Oct 2025 to Sept 2026). PLEASE FILL IN YOUR PUBLICATIONS IN THE APPROPRIATE CATEGORY USING THE DROP-DOWN MENU, ONE BY ONE. PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE LINK TO A WEBPAGE WITH YOUR PUBLICATIONS. SUCH REPORTS WILL BE DEEMED INCOMPLETE. Avoid duplication of publications. If a PI and his/her group members obtained results for a publication with allocations on multiple projects, they should list the publication only once under the project where a major portion of the results were obtained.
Note: in all your publications and presentations, LCRC should be acknowledged, for example: "We gratefully acknowledge use of the Improv (and/or Bebop and/or Swing) cluster in the Laboratory Computing Resource Center at Argonne National Laboratory."
If your project was created on or after July 1, 2026, you are not required to submit a report, but we encourage you to do so if significant progress has already been made.
If you have any questions or find any issues with this process, please send them to [email protected].
PLEASE REMEMBER, YOUR TIME ALLOCATION FOR FY2027 (OCT 2026 TO SEPT 2027) WILL ONLY START AFTER YOUR COMPLETED FY2026 ANNUAL REPORT HAS BEEN RECEIVED BY LCRC. (PIs who have submitted a FY27 renewal request but not the FY26 report will have their project on hold till a completed request is submitted)
Also keep in mind that the LCRC Allocations Committee may consider your report in its deliberations about FY2027 time requests.