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
- Representatives of the area of Mathematics, Physics and Engineering (MPE)
  Javier Jiménez Sendín (Computational Mechanics of fluids Dpt, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
  Fernando Martín García (Chemistry Dpt, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

- Representatives of the area of Chemistry and Material Sciences (CMS)
  Rubén Pérez (Condensed Matter Physics Dpt., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  Núria López (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia)

- Representatives of the area of Biomedicine and Life Sciences (BLS)
  Carme Rovira (ICREA Research Professor at Parc Científic de Barcelona)
  Francisco Javier Luque (Physical Chemistry Dpt., University of Barcelona)

- Representatives of the area of Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences (ASES)
  Jordi Torra (Astronomy and Meteorology Dpt., Univeristy of Barcelona)
  Miguel Ángel Aloy (Relativistic astrophysics group, Universitat de València)

For further information pelase visit the section CURES available at the RES Area since October 2011. This section includes a messaging iterface that allows to contact the CURES members and ask them any doubts. Also includes useful documentation.