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Indiana University and Purdue University are together building a 20-gigabit-per-second connection from those institutions through Indianapolis to the existing TeraGrid hub in Chicago. Indiana and Purdue will contribute up to 6.26 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second) of computing capability; up to 400 terabytes of data storage capacity; visualization resources; specialized instrumentation including a number of life science data sets deriving from Indiana University's Indiana Genomics Initiative.

Indiana University
IU User Guide

The Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, is a fiber optics network that connects supercomputers at Louisiana's major research universities, allowing computation speeds than 1000 times the rate previously possible, and transforming the research capability of Louisiana's educational institutions. With an anticipated 85 teraflops of computational capacity, LONI will be one of the nation's largest grid computing environments. Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco has pledged $40 million over ten years for the development and support of LONI.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research under primary sponsorship by the National Science Foundation. With its research partners, NCAR is dedicated to exploring and understanding the Earth atmosphere and its interactions with the Sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human society.

NCAR

NCSA provides computational, networking, storage, and support resources to TeraGrid users. NCSA contributes more than 120 teraflops of compute power and 5 petabytes of storage capacity. Expert NCSA staff assist TeraGrid users through the Operations Center, by creating and managing user accounts and disseminating information to users, and by providing weekly reports on cross-site data transfers. Innovative software from NCSA is also key to the TeraGrid's success. This software includes: AMIE for the automated management of grid resource allocations, user information, user login accounts, and reporting; CluMon for cluster monitoring and management; MyProxy for managing grid credentials; and an interactive, GridFTP-enabled FTP client called UberFTP.

NCSA
NCSA User Guide

The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) will establish a major new petascale computing environment fully integrated with the TeraGrid. The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) leads a partnership to provide a system designed specifically for sustained application performance, scalability, and reliability and that will prepare and empower the user community for high-productivity, petascale science and engineering.

NICS

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will establish a 10-gigabit-per-second network connection integrating the neutron-scattering instruments at ORNL through a new TeraGrid network hub to be located in Atlanta. As one of the laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), ORNL is connecting its High Flux Isotope Reactor and Spallation Neutron Source instruments, as well as ORNL's Center for Computational Sciences to the TeraGrid.

ORNL
ORNL User Guide

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) provides two systems that facilitate large-scale parallel applications. PSC's Cray XT3 (bigben), 2,068 2.6-GHz dual-core processors (Opteron) linked by a custom-designed interconnect. Bigben is a tightly-coupled system, optimal for applications that scale to high levels of parallelism or concurrency (512-4096 processes). Complementing the XT3, PSC also provides a 128-processor, 512 gigabyte shared-memory HP Marvel system (rachel). The PSC environment also includes 300 terabytes of online disk and 2.4 petabytes of archival storage.

PSC
PSC User Guide

Indiana University and Purdue University are together building a 20-gigabit-per-second connection from those institutions through Indianapolis to the existing TeraGrid hub in Chicago. Indiana and Purdue will contribute up to 6.26 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second) of computing capability; up to 400 terabytes of data storage capacity; visualization resources; specialized instrumentation including the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory and a number of life science data sets deriving from Indiana University's Indiana Genomics Initiative.

Purdue University
Purdue User Guide

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California at San Diego leads the TeraGrid data and knowledge management effort by deploying data-intensive resources including DataStar (15.7TF, IBM Power 4+), BlueGene (17.2TF, IBM PowerPC), a Linux cluster (4.4TF, Intel IA-64), 2.5PB online disk, and a 25PB archive. SDSC serves as the home of the TeraGrid GPFS-WAN global file system servers with clients at several TeraGrid resource partners.

SDSC
SDSC User Guide

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin maintains a 10-gigabit-per-second network connection from Austin, Texas, to the TeraGrid hub in Chicago. TACC provides the TeraGrid community access to a Dell Xeon 64-bit compute cluster (Lonestar) capable of a theoretical peak performance of 55 teraflops, a terascale Sun E25K visualization system (Maverick) available interactively and via web-based remote visualization software, the center's 2.8-petabyte mass storage system (Archive), and four geoscience data collections.

TACC
TACC User Guide

The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory (UC/ANL) leads the effort to deploy advanced distributed computing software, high-resolution rendering and remote visualization capabilities, and networks. This effort utilizes a 1-teraflop IBM Linux cluster with parallel visualization hardware.

UC/ANL
UC/ANL User Guide