Coordination Funds

优先计划SPPEXA与其他优先计划的不同之处在于其起源、规模、通过DFG战略基金提供的资金、所涉及的学科范围以及针对一系列时间紧迫的目标的明确战略方向。因此，尽管其结构分散，SPPEXA在很大程度上也类似于一个合作研究中心。它的成功实施和发展将需要越来越多的结构性措施。本提案中提出的协调项目包括所有计划在整个南太平洋执行计划范围内开展的活动，包括指导和协调、内部和国际合作和联网以及教育活动，战略指导和协调由两名科学协调员、指导委员会和一名在南太平洋执行计划相关研究课题和项目管理问题方面都有经验的研究人员保证。这一科学方案管理员的职能类似于合作研究中心的总经理：确保实现SPPEXA目标的总体进展;规划和协调共同活动;协助联营集团开展额外活动（讲习班、教育等）; SPPEXA与德国以外的高性能计算领域的其他倡议（国家科学基金会、能源部）的第一批链接已在启动阶段准备就绪，随后将有更多的链接。邀请国际研究人员并与之合作的许多可能性（研讨会，博士务虚会等）以及SPPEXA组织的国际会议将进一步加强SPPEXA与国际HPC社区的关系，并确保SPPEXA成为国内和国际HPC基础研究的重要组成部分。

The Priority Programme (SPP) SPPEXA is different from other SPP with respect to its genesis, its volume, its funding via DFG’s Strategy Fund, with respect to the range of disciplines involved, and to a clear strategic orientation towards a set of time-critical objectives. Therefore, despite its distributed structure, SPPEXA also resembles a Collaborative Research Centre to a large extent. Its successful implementation and evolution will require both more and more intense structural measures. The Coordination Project presented in this proposal comprises all intended SPPEXAwide activities, including steering and coordination, internal and international collaboration and networking, and educational activities.The strategic steering and coordination is guaranteed by the two scientific coordinators, the steering committee, and a researcher experienced both in SPPEXA-relevant research topics and in project management issues. The function of this scientific programme manager is similar to that of a managing director of a Collaborative Research Center: ensure the overall progress towards SPPEXA’s goals; plan and coordinate the corporate activities; assist consortia with the implementation of additional activities (workshops, education, etc.); form an interface to international partners and programmes.First links of SPPEXA to other initiatives in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) outside Germany (NSF, DOE) have already been prepared during the initiation phase, and more will follow. Many possibilities to invite and collaborate with international researchers (workshops, doctoral retreats, etc.) as well as SPPEXA’s organized international conferences will further tighten the relations of SPPEXA with the international HPC community and ensure that SPPEXA becomes a highly visible component of fundamental research in HPC, nationally and internationally.