Project overview
In April 2015, the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) at the University of Tokyo launched the Project for the Advancement of Software Usability in Materials Science (PASUMS) to promote joint research on the ISSP supercomputer. In response to the increasing sophistication and complexity of parallel computing, the PASUMS aims to facilitate the development and/or upgrade of programs that are particularly important to condensed matter research and are expected to be widely used on the ISSP supercomputers. By providing an environment that enables users to perform advanced parallel computations more efficiently, we aim to offer highly usable computer resources that will allow rapid prediction of new phenomena and the verification of experimental results.
Proposals for target programs received in response to the annual call by the ISSP are reviewed by the Advisory Committee for Joint Usage. Approved projects involving the development and upgrade of software will be supported over approximately one year under the following project structure. Our support for software advancement is not limited to development. We also provide support for preparing documentations and disseminating the software products (e.g., for installation on the ISSP’s supercomputer and posting on the ISSP web page) and running test calculations on ISSP’s supercomputers.
The activities and products of the PASUMS are reported on the official web page (https://www.pasums.issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp). The official page contains the latest news on software related to this project, a list of proposals selected to date, and reference information on the public call for project proposals. Please visit the site for more details.
Handling of Results
As a general rule, deliverables created through the project are to be released under a General Public License (GPL). Because the deliverables can be used on a wide range of computing facilities in addition to the ISSP supercomputer, we expect this project to contribute to the development of the solid state physics community as a whole. The University of Tokyo holds the copyright for new functions, units, and deliverables developed through this project.
Acknowledgments
Project leaders/research collaborators who present research related to a newly developed part of this project are requested to please acknowledge the Advancement of Software Usability team.
Japanese:
本ソフトウェアのyyyyはxxxx年度 東京大学物性研究所 ソフトウェア開発・高度化プロジェクトの支援を受け開発されました。
(yyyy is the version number of the feature or software, and xxxx is the year of the Project for the Advancement of Software Usability in Materials Science)
English:
yyyy was developed with support from the “Project for the Advancement of Software Usability in Materials Science” in the fiscal year xxxx by The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo.