Research and Proposal Support

Research Computing provides a variety of resources to the ASU research community with the goal of enabling research, accelerating scientific discovery, and spurring innovation through the use of advanced computational resources.

The following resources are available to you:

  • Customized proposal support for technology-related components.

  • Letter of Support.

  • Hardware quotes for proposal budgets.

  • Research technology needs assessment via personal consultation.

Please contact us by reviewing our RTO Request Help page.

Acknowledgment Guidelines

Please reference ASU Research Computing in any research report, journal, or publication that requires citation of any author's work. Acknowledgement guidelines are referenced below.

Core Facilities: If research submitted for publication uses a facility or service, we ask that you recognize the facility in the ‘Acknowledgements’ section of the manuscript.

Core Equipment: In some cases, equipment acquired by a grant must be listed in the ‘Materials and Methods’ section including the specific instrument grant award number.

Core Personnel: If an individual has provided support through advanced training, sample preparation or guidance in data acquisition or analysis, please recognize this individual in the acknowledgment section of the manuscript, as well as the core.  If an individual is asked to make a significant intellectual contribution to research submitted for publication, please discuss co-authorship with that individual when engaging them in the research project.

Sample Text For Acknowledging the Research Computing Core

The authors acknowledge Research Computing at Arizona State University for providing {computing, storage, etc.} resources that have contributed to the research results reported within this paper.

When acknowledging work done on the Sol supercomputer, please cite our peer-reviewed paper (bibtex, doi:10.1145/3569951.3597573): Jennewein, Douglas M. et al. "The Sol Supercomputer at Arizona State University." In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (pp. 296–301). Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. 

Sample Text for Acknowledging Core Personnel

We would like to acknowledge [person’s name] from the Research Computing Core Facilities at Arizona State University for [describe assistance/contributions].