How to acknowledge the use of HPSC resources in Publications

If your work was supported by High Performance Scientific Computing (HPSC) resources and/or staff, then please acknowledge ISAAC resource use and/or include the HPSC staff member(s) as a co-author or contributor on the publication.

Publications may include, but are not limited to, journal articles, organizational reports, organizational training or educational materials, theses or dissertations, research presentations (i.e., research posters, virtual presentations of research, visual aids, etc.) or reports (i.e., essays, assignments, etc.). HPSC resources include, but are not limited to: Infrastructure for Scientific Applications and Advanced Computing (ISAAC) systems (i.e., hardware, storage, networking, software), and/or professional staff support (i.e., HPSC staff professional expertise and/or assistance), e.g., work contributed by a HPSC staff member.

Templates

A publication that is based—wholly or in part—on work performed using ISAAC resources, should incorporate the below text into the “Acknowledgements” portion of the publication:

[A portion of] The computation for this work was performed on the University of Tennessee Infrastructure for Scientific Applications and Advanced Computing (ISAAC) computational resources.

If any HPSC staff member(s) assisted with the work associated with the contents of the publication, we request staff members be specifically credited similar to the following example:

The authors acknowledge University of Tennessee High Performance Scientific Computing (HPSC) staff, {staff member name here} for support and contribution to this work

If work was generally supported by the whole HPSC team (team supported use of resources, software and technical and other support) provide something similar to the following example:

The authors acknowledge the University of Tennessee High Performance Scientific Computing (HPSC) group for providing computational resources, technical support, and other support for this work

Co-authorship

If the HPSC staff contributed significantly to your publication, please include them as a co-author. Significant contributions may include editing, creating, or contributing sections of text; writing code or scripts; or assisting with development or optimization of scripts, code, or software, etc.