NSF's $35 Million Extensible Terascale Facility Award Expands TeraGrid Project.Business Editors CHAMPAIGN, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2002 The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (body, World-Wide Web) National Center for Supercomputing Applications - (NCSA) The birthplace of the first version of the Mosaic World-Wide Web browser. Address: Urbana, IL, USA. http://ncsa.uiuc.edu/. (NCSA) and its TeraGrid project partners will receive about $35 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to expand the project, NCSA Director Dan Reed announced today. TeraGrid is a multi-year, NSF-funded effort to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. Today's Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF) award expands the $53 million TeraGrid project, announced in August 2001, to five sites: NCSA at the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. ; Argonne National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory, research center, based in Argonne, Ill., 27 mi (43 km) SW of downtown Chicago, with other facilities at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, 50 mi (80 km) W of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Founded in 1946 by the U.S. near Chicago; the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) at the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. ; and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a joint effort between Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, and Westinghouse Electric Company. PSC was founded in 1986 by its two Scientific Directors, Dr. Ralph Roskies of University of Pittsburgh and Dr. (PSC) at Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). and the University of Pittsburgh. "This expansion of the TeraGrid will provide computing power to scientists that is orders of magnitude beyond anything we've ever seen before," said Reed, chief architect for the TeraGrid project. "In addition, it will provide the best high-resolution visualization environments, more storage capacity than ever before possible, and access to grid computing toolkits and grid-enabled applications. The impact on scientific discovery will be significant. At this point, we can't even begin to imagine the discoveries that the TeraGrid will make possible." NCSA, SDSC, Argonne, and CACR were already part of the TeraGrid project. PSC previously received an NSF award to build a terascale computing system called TCS-1. The ETF award integrates these efforts and their computing environments to provide the national research community with more than 20 teraflops of computing power distributed among the five sites and nearly 1 petabyte (1 quadrillion bytes) of storage capacity. The award also ensures that additional sites will be able to connect to the TeraGrid. The five sites will be linked by the world's fastest optical research network, which will operate at 40 gigabits per second, built in partnership with Qwest Communications and designed to accommodate additional connections. The NSF awards will go to NCSA, SDSC, and PSC. Argonne and CACR will receive their funding through the three awardees. Final amounts will be determined through negotiation between the NSF and the awardees. For more information about NCSA and TeraGrid, see http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ |
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