RES Users' Committee (CURES)

The 9th February 2010, was stablished the CURES (Comité de Usuarios de la Red Española de Supercomputación).

Purpose
The purpose of CURES is to provide advice and feedback to the RES management and technicians (Red Española de Supercomputación) on the current state and future delivery of RES resources and services. CURES is to promote the effective use of the high performance computing facilities at RES by sharing information about experiences in using the facility, suggesting new research and technology directions in scientific computing, and voicing user concerns. To this end CURES will maintain communications through appropriate means, such as regular meetings, shared databases, and webpages.

Membership
The CURES members are:
‐ Eight scientists, two per RES area chosen by the Coordinators of the Allocation Committee, all of them PIs (Principal Investigators) of projects that have been developed accessing the RES resources.
‐ One representative chosen by RES

Chair and Vice‐Chair are elected by the members of the CURES among its members for a two year period and half of the members are renovated every year. Each member can stay a maximum of two years. Chair and Vice‐Chair are also renovated every two years but not simultaneously. At the end of a Chairs’ mandate, in order to facilitate continuity of CURES activities, the Vice‐Chair will take the Chair and a new Vice‐Chair will be elected.

Current CURES team
- Area Physics and Engineering (FI) representative

- Area Chemistry and Material Sciences (QCTM) representative

- Are Biomedicine and Health Sciences (BCV) representative

- Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences (AECT) representative

Jordi Torra
Miguel Ángel Aloy

- RES Management and technicians representative

Sergi Girona

Further information
Now more information can be obtained accessing to the CURES documentation.

Soon a new section regarding CURES will be available at the RES Area and the RES users will be able to contact the CURES members.