Dear APAC National Facility merit grant holder,


The National Facility service will commence on 30 April.  Attached 
are details of your grant and associated user-IDs and passwords.

Information to help in getting started will be sent by email direct 
to every user attached to your project, but for security reasons the 
passwords are being sent only in this mailing to you.  Please pass 
them on to the individuals concerned.

If any of the details on the attached page are incorrect or you wish 
to add or delete users, please email us or amend the page and send it 
back to us.

In the interests of providing a service as soon as possible, we are 
foregoing the extended 'test user' period that such major 
installations usually have prior to commencing general service.  We 
hope that the 7 days available to us between the system passing 
acceptance tests and the commencement of the service should be 
sufficient for us to provide a reliable service.  But we ask for your 
consideration and feedback if there are minor initial glitches.

Note that the grants notified on the accompanying page do not include 
the period October to December 2001 since the allocation for that 
quarter will not be made until later in the year.  Not only will the 
processors be upgraded in that quarter, but the total hours available 
will be significantly increased during that quarter, so users can 
expect a substantial boost in the number of hours allocated to their 
project in October - December.  However the exact size of the 
increased grant will depend on the requirements of new projects 
approved in mid-year by the Merit Allocation Committee.

Please also note that under USA export conditions, the National 
Facility system, which exceeds "2000 Composite Theoretical 
Performance", cannot be "accessed either physically or 
computationally by nationals of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, 
Sudan or Syria''.  Principal investigators and users nominated by 
them therefore cannot be a national of one of these countries.  If 
this means you must withdraw any of your associated users from your 
project, please notify us.

Bob Gingold