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August 17, 2005 | Comments: (0)

TeraGrid lands $150 million

TAGS: Grid Computing

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $150 million to operate and enhance the Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF)—aka "TeraGrid." Researchers and educators around the country can now access a range of computing resources that will accelerate advances in science and engineering TeraGrid has been used for complex data modeling tasks such as seismic modeling and understanding dark energy.

The $150 million award includes $48 million to provide overall architecture, software integration, operations and coordination of user support. An additional $100 million will provide for operation, management and user support of TeraGrid resources at eight resource provider sites.

TeraGrid uses the open source Globus Toolkit as part of it's infrastructure design.

In other Grid news, IBM is donating Blue Gene Supercomputer resources to Argonne's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE)

Posted by Dave Rosenberg on August 17, 2005 12:11 PM

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