The IBM HPC Systems Scientific Computing User Group

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Statement of Purpose

The IBM HPC Systems Scientific Computing User Group, SCICOMP, is an international organization of scientific/technical users of IBM systems. The purpose of SCICOMP is to share information on software tools and techniques for developing scientific applications that achieve maximum performance and scalability on systems, and to gather and provide feedback to IBM to influence the evolution of their systems. To further these goals, SCICOMP will hold periodic meetings which will include technical presentations by both IBM staff and users, focusing on recent results and advanced techniques. Discussions of problems with scientific systems will be held and aimed at providing advisory notifications to IBM staff detailing the problems and potential solutions. Mailing lists will be maintained to further open discussions and provide the sharing of information, expertise, and experience that scientific and technical applications developers need but may not easily find anywhere else.

Board of Directors

The makeup, duties, and powers of the SCICOMP Board of Directors, are described in the Bylaws. Current membership is as follows:

Meetings

ScicomP meetings are held once a year, in the spring or summer. Every other meeting will be held outside the USA. Sites will be chosen by the members, at least a year in advance, and earlier if possible. Additional informal meetings, such as Birds-of-a-Feather sessions at other conferences, may also be scheduled. Information on past meetings, including presentation materials, can be found belown in the Related Links section of this page.

Several meetings are in various stages of planning. Every other meeting will be held at a site outside the US, if possible. Tentatively, the next few meetings are planned as follows:

• SCICOMP 14 will be in North America, Spring/Summer 2008.
• SCICOMP 15 will be in Europe, Spring/Summer 2009.

Related Links

SP resources from centers participating in recent ScicomP meetings:

• NERSC
• Juelich
• HPCx

Technical and organizational archives are available through the following links:

• Notes from relevant discussions at other meetings, attended by members or officers of SCICOMP are located on the Birds-of-a-Feather page.
• Web pages from previous official SCICOMP meetings are located on the Past Meetings page
• Web pages provided by IBM Corporation at available on the IBM Corporate Links page
• Web pages from other relevant groups are located on the Other IBM System Organizations page

Mailing lists

Mailing lists will be maintained to further open discussions and provide the sharing of information, expertise, and experience that scientific and technical applications developers need but may not easily find anywhere else.

Members are subscribed to mailing lists,
           members@spscicomp.org


Interested parties can subscribe to
           announce@spscicomp.org.

Organizational officers and directors should be automatically subscribed to
           exec@spscicomp.org.

The members list is limited to members of SciComp, and will be used for voting.
The announce list will have slightly more activity but generally will be limited to announcements of SCICOMP meetings and calls for presentations (which will NOT be sent to the members list).
The exec list is limited to officers and directors, and will be used for policy discussions. The forum list is open to all members, and will be used for general discussions.

The criteria for membership, holding office, and directorship, in SCICOMP, are defined in the SCICOMP organizational bylaws.

Note that charter members are already subscribed to the members list, and officers and directors are automatically subscribed to the list.

The following table summarizes the above:

To remove yourself from a list do as above but replace subscribe with unsubscribe

Discussions about this web site should be directed to Richard Gerber at NERSC.

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