• RSVP

    rsvp logoCISL Research and Supercomputing Visitor Program (RSVP)

    Overview

    The Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) regards collaborations with university faculty, practitioners in high-performance computing, new researchers and students as central to its mission to support the atmospheric and related sciences. The RSVP program emphasizes visits of several weeks to several months to allow for significant collaboration with CISL staff and seeks to provide partial or possibly full financial support for the travel and living expenses related to the visit.

    Some examples of RSVP visits are:

    • A faculty member has a specific research project that will benefit from close interaction with a CISL staff member.
    • A staff member from another computational facility visits to share expertise on specific aspects of provisioning HPC to a scientific community.
    • A graduate student visits a specific group or researcher to support part of his/her thesis research through data sets of computational algorithms.
    • A faculty advisor or mentor visits at the same time his/her student is involved in an NCAR research program, e.g. SIParCS.

    Guidelines

    • RSVP visitors must be sponsored by a CISL staff member and have a clear plan for productive interaction.
    • In most cases, the RSVP visit will range from 3 weeks to 12 weeks.
    • Financial support with RSVP is limited to travel and living expenses.
    • CISL RSVP visitors are encouraged to engage and interact with the broader NCAR community by presenting seminars, lectures, tutorials as appropriate. (Although this broader scope is not a requirement, preference will given to visits with the potential for establishing connections with other groups in UCAR as well as CISL.)
    • RSVP visitors will complete a short Summary of Visit form near the end of their stay.

    Application

    Once a sponsor has been identified, prospective visitors should fill out the Visitor Support Application Form. The request for visitor support will be reviewed promptly and awards will be made as applications are received.

    For further program information, please contact rsvp@ucar.edu.

    Students should also consider CISL's SIParCS summer internship program as an alternative to the RSVP.