TeraGrid Receives $30M NSF Grant
The TeraGrid is receiving an additional $30M National Science Foundation grant that will support continued operation of the system of interconnected supercomputers. The grid, launched in 2001, includes participation by 11 U.S. computing centers.
Staff -- Semiconductor International, 9/1/2009
TeraGrid, the U.S. system of interconnected supercomputers that provide nanotechnology researchers with access to computing resources, is receiving an additional $30M National Science Foundation grant.
Launched in 2001, TeraGrid provides researchers open access to supercomputers connected via high-speed networks, providing access to >100 discipline-specific databases.
TeraGrid is coordinated through the Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG) at the University of Chicago, working in partnership with resource sites at Indiana University, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the National Institute for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Purdue University, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
The NSF grant recipients are Ian Foster, director of the Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory; and John Towns, director of persistent infrastructure at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, Ill.
Matt Heinzel heads GIG. The grid connects to Purdue University's NanoHUB, a web portal that serves as a resource for research, training and education in nanoelectronics and related fields. The partnership with Purdue is to allow users of the portal to run larger jobs that would use supercomputers on the TeraGrid, or deal with larger datasets that use the storage of the TeraGrid, Heinzel said.
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