Scientific Development and Visualization Laboratory
Access procedures and reporting requirements

Starting a supercomputing resources research project

Access to the Scientific Development and Visualization Laboratory (SDVL) is available to faculty members of the University of Minnesota or other accredited institutions of post-secondary education in the state of Minnesota for themselves and their research groups. All researchers who apply for and receive competitively reviewed Supercomputing Institute resource allocations or are graduate students enrolled in the Scientific Computation Graduate Program are automatically eligible for access by completing an add resource form or by having the principal investigator request an account following the procedures listed below in the section "Adding a new user to an existing project."

The new account form can be used by those who do not have a current Supercomputing Institute resource project to apply for laboratory access.

For Institute administrative purposes, a group may be headed by a single principal investigator (P.I.), or it may have one P.I. and one co-P.I. The P.I. and co-P.I. should be faculty members of the University of Minnesota. (For supercomputer resource grants, the P.I. may also be a faculty member at an accredited institutions of higher education in the state of Minnesota.) All projects with the same P.I. (for projects without a co-P.I.) or same combination of P.I. and co-P.I. are treated as a single project for administrative convenience.

A Scientific Development and Visualization Laboratory project is a research project that has obtained peer reviewed access to the Scientific Development and Visualization Lab.

Supercomputing Institute resource allocations are made to a given project for a given six-month period (i.e., January 1 to June 30 and July 1 to December 31). To expedite supercomputing research, access requests are accepted at any time. Renewal of accounts is required every six-months.

Adding a new user to an existing project

New user or group members can be added to an already established supercomputing research project (i.e., a research project that has already received a peer reviewed resource allocation for the period in question) and have an SDVL account created by having the Principal Investigator complete the add group member form or by providing the following information to:

accounts@msi.umn.edu

1. name of principal investigator (and, if applicable, co-principal investigator)
2. name of new user or new group member
3. mailing address of new user or new group member
4. email of new user or new group member
5. telephone number of new user or new group member
6. reporting code of new user or new group member

Also, please let us know if the existing title and/or abstract of this project needs to be broadened.

Reporting requirements

The Supercomputing Institute looks forward to seeing the results of your work. We request that all research reports and preprints of work supported in whole or in part by this allocation be submitted to the Supercomputing Institute to be included in the UMSI Research Report Series. Please submit one preprint of all research reports and preprints to the Supercomputing Institute Research Reports Coordinator, Supercomputing Institute, 599 Walter, 117 Pleasant Street, S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (or campus mail). We encourage you to submit your papers electronically. Questions regarding electronic submission should be addressed to the reports coordinator at submissions@msi.umn.edu or (612) 625-0012 for more information. The Supercomputing Institute should be acknowledged in such publications in the byline, the acknowledgments, or both. We would appreciate your sending us material suitable for the Supercomputing Institute Research Bulletin as such material becomes available or can be written at appropriate times in the development and progress of your research programs.