ETSF I3 project

European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility I3 Project

The European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility I3 (ETSF-I3) project is an Electronic Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (‘e-I3’) undertaken by the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility network and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and funded by the European Union's Framework Programme 7. Beginning in January 2008, its originally-planned duration was three years.

Activities

The figure below illustrates the activities of the ETSF I3 project.

Work Packages

In accordance with FP7 practice, the project is organised into work packages:

• WP1 - Management of the Consortium.
• WP2 - Foresight for Improvement.
• WP3 - Improving Communications, Dissemination, and Widening Understanding.
• WP4 - Implementing ETSF User Projects.
• WP5 - Promoting Code Availability.
• WP6 - Delivering External Training.
• WP7 - Development of Theory, Software and User Support.
• WP8 - Software Portability and Interoperability.
• WP9 - ETSF e-Libraries.

Participants and Organisation

• ETSF core nodes - taking responsibility for operation of the project and carrying out its tasks.
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center - providing code optimisation expertise.
• ETSF users - a large and varied group of researchers from the public and private sector, taking advantage of developments in the field of electronic excitations through user projects and other contacts.
• ETSF associate nodes - a broad community of theoretical research groups working on related topics, able to undertake user projects.

Governance and Administration

• Steering Committee - comprising representatives of all 11 partners, that is, the ETSF core nodes plus the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
• Advisory Board.
• Two full-time administrators.

Output

• User projects.
• Scientific publications (140 papers published or submitted by 31^st December 2009).
• Software - development, parallelisation, optimisation and improved availability.
• E-libraries - development of a dynamic knowledge base indexing of computer code, modular subroutines, and libraries (to be reused by software developers); input and output specifications, geometries, pseudopotentials, etc.
• Deliverable reports.