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NSF
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Supercomputer centers
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The four NSF Supercomputer centers are:
- Cornell National Supercomputer Facility at Cornell University;
- National center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois;
- Pittsburgh Supercomputing center at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, and Westinghouse;
- San Diego Supercomputer center at the University of California at San Diego.
They represent major activities that serve the computational needs of all NSF science and engineering disciplines by providing over 8,000 users from 49 States access to state-of-the-art high performance computing resources. Additional activities at the centers include: information on and access to emerging technologies; software tools for high performance computing; support for Grand Challenge applications; and education, training, and outreach at all levels. The centers have pioneered partnerships with the private sector working to introduce HPC technologies intonational industries to solve design and manufacturing problems. They are also involved in testing the next generation network capabilities, including developing tools for ease of network navigation. The strategic goals of the centers are:
- Provide access to state of the art equipment to academic community;
- Research emerging technologies; interact with vendors;
- Develop tools and software for all aspects of high performance computing and communications;
- Lead in computational science applications (Grand Challenges);
- Provide education and training in the use of HPC (vector & scalable systems, workstation access);
- Act as a resource for State and local centers;
- Provide educational outreach at all levels.
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Budget ($ M)
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FY 95 Act
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70.91
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FY 96 Pres
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74.90
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FY 96 Est
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69.36
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FY 97 Rqst
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57.73
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Program Component Areas
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FY 96
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FY 97
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HECC
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69.36
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57.73
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LSN
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HCS
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HuCS
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ETHR
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Agency Ties
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DARPA
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Partner
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NSF
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DOE
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NASA
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Partner
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NIH
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Partner
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NSA
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NIST
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NOAA
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EPA
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ED
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AHCPR
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VA
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Milestone Changes
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FY 1997 will be a transition year from the existing program to the new Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure.
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FY 1995 Actual Milestones
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FY 1996 Estimated Milestones
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FY 1997 Agency Requested Milestones
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Installed new systems and upgrades of current systems at Supercomputer centers to more powerful parallel computing systems needed to support the academic computing community.
Enhanced metacenter activities, especially in the area of mass storage for the national file system being developed at the centers.
Added additional Regional Alliances (4-6) to enhance computing and communications expertise of individuals in university, education, public and private sectors.
Hosted annual Supercomputing meeting in San Diego, with center Directors as General Chair and Program Chair (5,000 attendees anticipated).
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Renew Supercomputer centers cooperative agreements.
Establish National Metacenter as a seamless national computing environment across all four NSF centers and other affiliates.
Establish parallel computing as production method in computational research.
Provide access to computer systems with capacity approaching a teraFLOP.
Support demonstration of National Challenge applications.
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Initiate the Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure in order to provide access to high performance computing for the academic research community at a level of one to two orders of magnitude greater than that typically available at a major research university.
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