Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (ASTA)

Overview

The Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (ASTA) Program aims to help ensure that the resources of TeraGrid are optimally utilized for important scientific discoveries and technological innovation. It associates one or more TeraGrid staff members at a minimum of 25% FTE time with a user's project for a sustained effort aimed at maximizing the effectiveness of application software and TeraGrid resources to support a project's scientific goals.

The ASTA program will help applications make intensive use of at least one RP's unique resource, preferably in conjunction with other TeraGrid resources. Multiclustering; parameter sweeps; ensemble runs; different but linked models on possibly heterogeneous systems; large scale computation with remote data storage or visualization; checkpointing and steering with code and data migration; computation with live data processing and assimilation; and distributed data mining leveraging a central data collection are examples of innovative application scenarios we believe can benefit from the ASTA project.

If you would like to explore ASTA for your TeraGrid project, please contact TeraGrid Help.