Acknowledging NSF NCAR and CISL¶
A requirement of all allocations and use of NSF NCAR HPC resources managed by CISL, including the CMIP Analysis Platform and Research Data Archive, is to acknowledge NSF NCAR support for your research. Our ability to identify supported scientific results helps ensure continued support from NSF and other sources for future HPC systems.
Each year, CISL conducts a survey of its user community to collect published works resulting from use of NSF NCAR’s HPC environment. Responding to this survey helps us capture and track the scientific impact of these critical services.
We also appreciate hearing about your scientific successes at any time. If your institution prepares a press release or news story about your work using NSF NCAR resources, please contact us at alloc@ucar.edu so we can help promote your work.
More details follow below for appropriate ways to acknowledge Derecho, Cheyenne, Yellowstone, and CMIP Analysis Platform projects, and for the use of Research Data Archive data sets.
For Derecho projects¶
Citation formats¶
You can cite your use of the Derecho system with the following formats, based on the source of your allocation and modified as needed to conform with citation style guidelines. Be sure to use the digital object identifier (DOI) as shown; it is unique to Derecho.
- Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. 2023. Derecho: HPE Cray EX System (University Community Computing). Boulder, CO: NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. doi:10.5065/qx9a-pg09.
- Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. 2023. Derecho: HPE Cray EX System (NCAR Community Computing). Boulder, CO: National Center for Atmospheric Research. doi:10.5065/qx9a-pg09.
- Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. 2023. Derecho: HPE Cray EX System (Wyoming-NCAR Alliance). Boulder, CO: National Center for Atmospheric Research. doi:10.5065/qx9a-pg09.
Acknowledgments¶
Acknowledgments are more difficult to track electronically due to the many possible variations, but you may choose to acknowledge support from Derecho if the citation method described above is inappropriate. You may modify the following examples as appropriate; however, please include at least the DOI in the acknowledgment text, as you would include funding agency award numbers.
For University/CHAP and NSF NCAR allocations¶
We would like to acknowledge high-performance computing support from the Derecho system (doi:10.5065/qx9a-pg09) provided by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
For Wyoming-NCAR Alliance allocations¶
We would like to acknowledge the use of the Derecho system (doi:10.5065/qx9a-pg09) supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at the NSF NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the State of Wyoming.
For Casper projects¶
If your work on NCAR computing resources has primarily involved the Casper cluster for analyzing data or other purposes, you can acknowledge the Casper cluster as in the following examples. Note that if Casper was used in your workflow to post-process or analyze results from Derecho, please cite or acknowledge the Derecho system instead.
For University/CHAP and NSF NCAR allocations¶
We would like to acknowledge computing support from the Casper system (https://ncar.pub/casper) provided by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
For Wyoming-NCAR Alliance allocations¶
We would like to acknowledge the use of the Casper system (https://ncar.pub/casper) supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at the NSF NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the State of Wyoming.
For Cheyenne projects¶
If you are publishing a work that used the Cheyenne resource, follow the guidance for Derecho above, but use the appropriate calendar year, "Cheyenne: HPE/SGI ICE XA System" for the system name, and the Cheyenne DOI (doi:10.5065/D6RX99HX).
For Yellowstone projects¶
If you are publishing a work that used the Yellowstone resource, follow the guidance for Derecho, but use 2016 for the citation year, "Yellowstone: IBM iDataPlex System" for the system name, and the Yellowstone ARK (http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7wd3xhc) for the DOI.
For CMIP Analysis Platform projects¶
See this CMIP Analysis Platform documentation for how to acknowledge NSF NCAR/CISL support and for information on other requirements related to the use of CMIP data.
For use of GDEX data sets¶
We ask that you cite the dataset(s) used. Citations templates are provided on the relevant GDEX dataset home pages. For an example, see the "How to Cite This Dataset" section on https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d094000/citation.
Acknowledgements¶
The data were provided by the Research Data Archive (RDA) of the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. NSF NCAR is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation.