Please read this if you use (or plan to use) a Compute Canada (CC) high performance computing facility. This is your opportunity to have your future needs reflected in CC purchasing decisions. Please read the attached PDF and send me an email by July 15 answering the questions listed there which apply best to you.

Examples:

• what kinds of problems do you use computing to help solve?
• do you make use of existing Compute Canada infrastructure? Which ones?
• what is your current level of usage of storage, computing, cloud, portals, etc.?
• do you currently rely on any software packages or other sort of shared software infrastructure?
• how do you expect your needs to grow, and what drives this growth? special needs for your future computations, be as specific as possible.

I will then try to collate your responses into a single document and circulate back to you before the CC submission deadline of July 31.

Sincerely,
Garth

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Message from Dugan O'Neil:

I am writing as the Chief Science Officer of Compute Canada. As presented at the CINP AGM, we have launched a consultation process (SPARC) which will help us to assess the national need for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) over the next 5 years. An important part of that consultation is to get discipline-specific feedback from communities that rely on ARC to get their research done.

Nuclear Physics is clearly one such community. I have attached the text of the whitepaper call. We are asking for some fast feedback on community needs. I hope that Canadian nuclear physicists will be able to create a reply on that time scale. The quick turnaround is inspired by the planned CFI cyberinfrastructure initiative and the related planning exercises that will be going forward this fall.

Please let me know if you have questions or concerns.
Dugan O'Neil
Professor of Physics, SFU (doneil@sfu.ca)
Chief Science Officer, Compute Canada (dugan.oneil@computecanada.ca)