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

This section is required for ALL applicants

* 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

SAPAC services and expertise

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):

SAPAC facilities

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

Mass data storage and management / research data and database hosting

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 users

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 users

Access Grid services required: facility only facility with operator operator only session management facility support training PIG Other

If "other", please specify:

SAPAC Access grid facilities can be booked here.

Other Access Grid facilities are listed here.

Security

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