INSTRUCTIONS FOR PET CEWES MSRC CORE SUPPORT AND FOCUSED EFFORT
PROPOSALS

Core Support and Focused Effort proposals for Year Four are due in
the formats below by COB 22 January 1998.  The Annual Review meeting
on 9-10 February will allow summary presentations of the efforts as
indicated in a separate email that will include instructions and a draft
agenda for the meeting.  PET funding for Year Four will be approximately
10-15 percent less than the current Year Three funding level.  Please
note that both Core Support areas and Focused Efforts require proposals.
If you are the lead in one of the ten technical areas, you must submit
a Core Support proposal for continued funding.

This request for proposals is being sent only to the lead people at each
university and leads for the ten technical areas.  Please pass it along
to others as you see fit.
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               PET Proposal Evaluation Criteria

The following list of items to be considered in evaluating Core Support
and Focused Effort proposals were originally suggested by Louis Turcotte,
the government PET lead at CEWES MSRC.  Obviously, every Core Support
and Focused Effort cannot meet all of these guidelines, but they are
used to judge the relevance and appropriate nature of proposals.

* Each proposed effort should be an HPC support activity related
  to national defense or national security
* Does proposed activity have relevance to ongoing Common HPC Software
  Support Initiative (CHSSI) projects?
* Does effort complement MSRC hardware acquisition strategy?
* Is proposed effort relevant to ongoing DoD Challenge Projects?
* Does proposed effort exploit the Defense Research and Engineering
  Network (DREN) network capabilities?
* PET efforts should improve the effective utilization of HPC resources
  via
  - Visualization and data interpretation
  - Code performance enhancements
  - Multi-architecture portability, etc.
* Proposed PET efforts should enhance the capability to use MSRC systems
  via
  - Training and graduate courses
  - HBCU/MI activities
  - Collaborative environments
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                 PET Project Management

Once awarded, both Core Support and Focused Efforts are managed according
to the following criteria:

* Authority to Proceed is based on informal proposals submitted to the
  PET Director and the review/concurrence of PET leadership and the
  government
* Projects must have MSRC user advocacy and participation if at all
  possible
* Projects should have specific start and end dates, schedules,
  deliverables, budgets, and periodic progress reviews (every 3-6 months)
* Each effort will be managed on a project-by-project basis (i.e., funding
  will be allocated and must be tracked on this basis)