Application for Membership in the SP-XXL User Group

[This section is for the Sponsor's comments]

(Sponsor Site) sponsors (Application Site)'s application for membership of the SP-XXL user group. 

(As a Sponsor give a brief overview of the Applicant's IBM High Performance Computing initiative(s) and if applicable, a background of other computing inititatives and programs. Reflect on the Applicant Site's history of HPC and their contribution to the computing community at large. Include information with regard to the Applicant's desire to participate in SP-XXL and their commitment to attending and participating in SP-XXL meetings. The Sponsor should include their thoughts on which membership criteria the Applicant Site meets.)

  1. Name of Institution

    (Acronym - Full Site Name)

  2. Location of Institution

    (City, Country)

  3. URL for Institution

    (Publicly available web information)

  4. Lead person at Institution for SP-XXL (Include name, mailing address, email address, telephone, and fax).

    (Lead Person)

    (Institution)
    (Street)
    (City)
    (Country)

    (Lead Person email address)

    (Telephone - include country code)
    (Fax - include country code)

  5. Each of the following criteria factor equally into the evaluation of a new member application. An applying Institution should describe its capabilities and activities that address each of the criteria.

    1. Institutional commitment on scientific/technical computing with a focus on large parallel computing (e.g., a parallel application running on 50% of their system nodes) [20%].

      (Site has installed or is installing a BLANK Supercomputer for BLANK research)
      (This SYSTEM will be used for blank, blank and blank)

    2. Institutional objective to track advancements in Scalable-Parallel software and hardware technology (as possible within funding limitations and procurement regulations) [20%].

      (Site's history with HPC)
      (Site's current plans)
      (Site's vision for the future of computing)

    3. Active R&D efforts in applications, tools/libraries or system software, either individually by the Institution or in collaboration with one or more SP-XXL sites and/or IBM [20%].

      (What will the Site use the SYSTEM for)
      (Collaborations with other SP-XXL sites or other Institutions)

    4. Operates one or more large IBM systems installed at their site that are used for large, parallel scientific/technical computing applications. Describe each system and the applications. [20%]

      (Describe the size, scope and power of the IBM SYSTEM)
      (What are the applications and areas of research be addressed with the SYSTEM)

    5. Specify the type of activities and contributions the Institution plans to have in the SP-XXL user group. [20%]

      (Describe collaborations and contributions to the HPC community at large)