Membership and Account Request Form
NOTE: * denotes a required field for ALL applicants
For reporting purposes and to assist researchers use SAPAC facilities and services, we ask all research users to complete the relevant parts of the following form.
SAPAC recommends that you attend a SAPAC induction course. Please indicate your interest in attending an induction course here: * I am interested in attending the next scheduled SAPAC induction course at Any location Flinders Uni Uni of Adelaide UniSA Mawson Lakes Waite none
Please note that SAPAC conforms to the privacy and anti-spamming policies of the University of Adelaide. SAPAC does reserve the right to email you with information on new or updated services, satisfaction surveys and training courses; if you do not want these notices, please indicate here: Please do not send me more information on e.g. SAPAC's free training courses
SAPAC Acknowledgement (for University researchers only)
SAPAC requires that you agree to acknowledge SAPAC in any publication resulting from the use of SAPAC facilities and/orservices. A suggested acknowledgement is available here.
I understand and agree to acknowledge SAPAC in any publication resulting from the use of SAPAC facilities and services.
Once you have submitted this form, your application will be acknowledged and we will be in touch with you to discuss your requirements in more detail.
Identity
This section is required for ALL applicants
* Name:
* E-mail: (Please ensure that this is an address at which you can be readily contacted)
* Telephone:
* Position:
Supervisor: (if you are a student)
Department:
* University/Institution/Company:
Project
* Project short title:
* Project description:
* Is the project primarily: Basic research Applied research Commercial
* Is your use of SAPAC wholly or partly related to commercial or non-basic research activities? yes no
Remaining sections of this Form
Depending on your particular interest, you may not need to fill in all areas of this Form. Please either scroll through the entire Form, or use the following links to go to particular sections.
SAPAC services and expertise
SAPAC facilities
Software contains required field for software users
High-performance Computing users
Mass data storage and management / research data and database hosting
Visualisation users
Access Grid users
Security
Anything else
Form review and submit
Please check the services in which you are interested (use multiple checks as appropriate):
High-performance computing (tools, support, assistance) Visualisation (tools, support, assistance) Access Grid (web-based videoconference support, session management, assistance) e-Research support (e.g. data repositories, web portals, grid computing) Bioinformatics High-performance computing and/or database hosting Training Other (please give brief description):
Please check the facilities in which you are interested (use multiple checks as appropriate):
High-performance computing Mass data storage and management South Australian Virtual Reality Centre (SAVRC) SAPAC VisLab Visualisation workstations Haptics workbench / portable unit Stereographic photography and/or video SAPAC Access Grid room SAVRC Access Grid Node SAPAC Access Grid 'PIG' Other (please give a brief description):
Software
Software available at SAPAC, including HPC compilers and tools, visualisation applications, etc, is listed here (coming soon...) . Typically SAPAC does not provide commercial software, nor is it responsible for managing and monitoring use and licensing of commercial software and, in these cases, users are solely responsible for conforming to the licenses for the software they use on SAPAC facilities; SAPAC can provide access to some commercial software .
Please indicate that you understand and agree to these requirements: I understand and agree with SAPAC's commercially licensed software policy
Required software (if not listed):
Download link:
If more than one package required, please list details here:
High-Performance Computing users
Requested username (up to 8 characters maximum):
Host or Network (DNS name or IP) you will connect from:
Computer(s) for which you would like an account: Aquila Hydra Orion Corvus- available mid-2007 APAC Facilities (through SAPAC)
Program type: sequential (single processor) parallel (multi-processor) both
If single-processor, are you interested in parallelising your program: yes no don't know
Number of processors required (if known) :
Memory requirements (if known) :
Are you interested in attending training workshops on HPC and/or programming on SAPAC parallel computers: yes no
SAPAC maintains in excess of 20TB of storage for research users. Users are responsible for the management of their own data and, unless special arrangements have been agreed in writing, SAPAC accepts no responsibility for data loss or security.
NOTE: Whilst limited data storage is supplied for each user, users with very large data storage requirements must discuss their requirements with SAPAC.
SAPAC offers dedicated research data storage and management services.
Are you interested in dedicated data storage and management: yes no
Estimated total size of data set(s): start/input:
Estimated total size of data set(s) finish/output:
Estimated time to keep:
Visualisation services required: service only service with operator development visualisation workstations stereo photography stereo video other
If "other", please specify:
General area of application (e.g. molecular modelling):
Software used:
Stereo required / preferred: yes no not applicable
SAPAC visualisation facilities can be booked here.
Access Grid services required: facility only facility with operator operator only session management facility support training PIG Other
SAPAC Access grid facilities can be booked here.
Other Access Grid facilities are listed here.
Please detail any security and/or confidentiality requirements (data storage, HPC access, Access Grid):
Anything else?
Form Review and Submission
Please briefly review the form, ensuring that all mandatory fields have been completed, and then submit. Your application will be acknowledged and an appropriate person from SAPAC will contact you.
For more information, please contact: Craig Hill Business Manager, SAPAC tel: 8303 8343 email: craig.hill@sapac.edu.au
Use of SAPAC services and facilities are subject to conditions of use and, for non-basic University research, modest charges might apply. * I have read, understand, and agree to the Conditions of Use and Charges for use of SAPAC services and facilities
