Networked Computing for the 21st Century Computing, Information, and Communications Research Facilities

	Overview NSF NASA DOE NIH NOAA EPA
Overview	To foster technical research and demonstrate future directions of CIC R&D, Federal agencies operate numerous CIC research facilities across the country. These facilities provide capabilities to (1) evaluate early prototype systems and provide feedback to developers, (2) integrate visualization and virtual reality systems into existing high performance systems, (3) run full-scale applications on systems not otherwise available, and (4) develop parallel software using scaled-down systems. These facilities provide access to innovations in network connectivity that allow large-scale applications to run over remote connections.   The success of these research centers is attributed to many enabling technologies (such as high speed networks, supercomputing systems, parallel architectures, massive data stores, and virtual reality display devices), and to the dedication of researchers, facility staff, hardware and software vendors, and industrial affiliates. All facilities provide extensive K-12 and undergraduate educational opportunities as well as training for researchers, graduate students, and faculty, and are optimal benchmarking sites for both systems and applications.   Funding for these facilities, primarily provided by CIC R&D agencies, is leveraged heavily through equipment and personnel from hardware and software vendors, discipline-specific agency funds, state and local funds, and industrial affiliate contributions. These facilities provide a low risk, collaborative environment for exploring and ultimately exploiting CIC technologies. Below is a list of CIC R&D research facilities categorized by the primary funding agency.
NSF	Supercomputing centers (through FY 1998) Cornell Theory center (CTC), Ithaca, NY National center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Urbana-Champaign, IL Pittsburgh Supercomputing center (PSC), Pittsburgh, PA San Diego Supercomputing center (SDSC), San Diego, CA Computing research facilities at the National center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO PACI centers   Begun in FY 1998, PACI succeeds the NSF Supercomputing centers and takes advantage of newly emerging opportunities in high performance computing and communications. National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA), Urbana-Champaign, IL National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), San Diego, CA Science & Technology centers center for Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, University of Utah center for Research in Parallel Computation (CRPC), Rice University
NASA	Testbeds Ames Research center, Moffett Field, CA Goddard Space Flight center, Greenbelt, MD Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Langley Research center, Langley, VA Lewis Research center, Cleveland, OH
DOE	Laboratories Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, IL Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM National Energy Research Supercomputer center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
NIH	Systems Frederick Biomedical Supercomputing center at the National Cancer Institute Supercomputing resources at the Division of Computer Research and Technology (now part of the CIT) National center for Research Resources' High Performance Computing Resource centers Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California, San Diego Parallel Computing Resource for Structural Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Parallel Processing Resource for Biomedical Scientists, Cornell Theory center, Cornell University Resource for Concurrent Biological Computing, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Supercomputing for Biomedical Research, Pittsburgh Supercomputing center Theoretical Simulation of Biological Systems, Columbia University National center for Research Resources' Scientific Visualization Resource centers Interactive Graphics for Molecular Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Special Research Resource for Biomolecular Graphics, University of California, San Francisco
NOAA	Laboratories Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ National centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Springs, MD
EPA	Systems National Environmental Supercomputing center, Bay City, MI