Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center - In late 2008, the Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (ARL MSRC) will increase its computing capability from 100 to 200 TFLOPS. This factor of two increase in capability will make the ARL MSRC one of the most capable computing centers in the Department of Defense (DoD).
Three Cray XT5s were procured for the ARL MSRC as part of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program’s (HPCMP) Technology Insertion 2008, an initiative to modernize the DoD’s high performance computing capabilities. The HPCMP provides the supercomputer services, high-speed network communications, and computational science expertise that enables the U.S. Defense laboratories, such as the ARL MSRC, to conduct a wide range of focused research, development, and testing activities.
"Today’s scientists are challenged with moving new ideas, technologies and capabilities from concept to warfighter capability more quickly than ever before. This increased computational power will ensure that our scientists and engineers can solve increasingly complex problems in real time, providing our warfighters the latest weapons systems, tactical capabilities and strategic technologies in a reduced timeframe", said Charles J. Nietubicz, Director of the ARL MSRC and Chief of the Advanced Computing and Computational Sciences Division in the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate.
Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) - The CACR at the California Institute of Technology, was established to foster advances in computational science and engineering. To achieve this goal, the center conducts multidisciplinary, application-driven research in computational science and engineering (CS&E) and participates in a variety of high-performance computing and communications research and development activities.
Center for Reliable and High-Performance
Computing (CRHC) - The CRHC is located in the Computer and Systems Research Laboratory on the North campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The center focuses on integrating research in the areas of reliable and high-performance computing, high-performance architectures, fault tolerance, and testing. Two major programs are in reliable chip architectures and reliable parallel systems.
Computation, Computers, Information and Mathematics (CCIM) Center - Hosted at Sandia National Laboratories, the CCIM provides national leadership in High Performance Computing. Dating to 15 years ago, Sandia has acquired leading Massively Parallel Processor (MPP) supercomputers of a consistent architecture from nCUBE, Intel, and Cray. Over this period, Sandia has increasingly performed the research and development to keep this architecture current and now has the ability to implement this architecture with minimal dependence on vendors. The architecture effort is currently exploring architectural issues necessary to scale to the 1-100 PFLOPS level.
Department of Energy (DOE) High Performance Computing
Research Center - Hosted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory The Center for Computational Sciences provides state-of-the-art resources as part of the U.S. Computing, Information, and Communications program. Established as a high performance computing research center by the Department of Energy Office of Science, the CCS is home to a DOE National User Facility, the Computational Center for Industrial Innovation (CCII). The CCS is a development team partner for the High Performance Storage System (HPSS), and is also a member of the Coalition of Academic Supercomputing Centers (CASC).
High Performance Computing Center at the University of New Mexico - The Center for High Performance Computing is the focal point for all aspects of high performance computing at the University of New Mexico. The Center is organized around vertically integrated teams that combine research in systems, middleware, and algorithms to enable fundamental scientific and engineering advances.
High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) - Today the Department of Defense (DoD) uses supercomputers and advanced computational methods to conduct basic research, develop and test precision weapons, and investigate new warfighting capabilities. Central to this activity is a partnership among the defense laboratories, test centers and the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). The HPCMP formally started in 1993 in response to Congressional and senior DoD leadership direction. The program grew from a collection of small high performance computing departments, each with a rich history of supercomputing experience, which independently evolved within the Army, Air Force and Navy laboratories and test centers.
The HPCMP provides the supercomputer services, high-speed network communications and computational science expertise that enables defense scientists and engineers to conduct a wide-range of focused research, development and test activities. This partnership puts advanced technology in the hands of U.S. forces more quickly, less expensively, and with greater certainty of success. HPC resources play a critical role in Homeland Security, such as, countermeasures to anthrax and DoD counterterrorism technology. HPC techniques were used to analyze and evaluate the Pentagon's structure in the Pentagon Retrofit Project, which will improve structural design to minimize damage and save lives in the event of attack.
Today, the HPCMP fields a unified set of supercomputing services to the DoD science, engineering, test and evaluation communities that includes some of the world's most powerful high performance computing systems, and a premier wide-area network, supporting a significant portion of the nation's top scientists and engineers with high performance computing software development and application assistance.
John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) - The John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) is a mutual foundation of Forschungszentrum Jülich and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY to support supercomputer-aided scientific research and development in Germany. NIC takes over the functions and tasks of the High Performance Computer Centre (HLRZ) established in 1987 and continues this centre's successful work in the field of supercomputing and its applications.
Maui High Performance Computing Center - The Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) is a national supercomputing center established in 1993 by the University of New Mexico under a Cooperative Agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory. A leader in scalable parallel computing, MHPCC supports a base of 1,200 users from DoD, government, commercial, and academic organizations.
National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications - Federal Networking and IT research, which launched and fueled the digital revolution, continues to drive innovation in scientific research, national security, communication, and commerce to sustain U.S. technological leadership. The NITRD agencies' collaborative efforts increase the overall effectiveness and productivity of Federal networking and information technology R&D investments, leveraging strengths, avoiding duplication, and increasing interoperability of R&D products.
National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE) - The NHSE is a distributed collection of software, documents, data, and information of interest to the high performance and parallel computing community. The NHSE seeks to actively promote software sharing and reuse within and across the HPCC agency programs on a sustainable basis. The NHSE facilitates the development of discipline-oriented software and document repositories and promotes contributions and use via the World Wide Web.
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) - The mission of the NPACI is to advance science by creating a ubiquitous, continuous, and pervasive national computational infrastructure know as the Grid. In the NPACI vision, researchers collect data from experiments and digital libraries, analyze the data with models run on a computing grid, visualize and share those data over the Web, and publish the results for the scientific community in digital libraries.
Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) - The State of Ohio has established an Ohio Supercomputer Center as a statewide resource designated to place Ohio's research universities and private industry in the forefront of computational research.
Research Data Networks (RDN) Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) - The RDN CRC is one of of a number of Information Technology Cooperative Research Centres funded under the Australian Commonwealth Government's CRC Program. RDN funds four projects whch are hosted by other institutions:
* Distributed and High-Performance Computing (DHPC) Group, within the On-Line Data Archives (OLDA) program of the Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys) CRC;
* Distributed Interactive Multimedia Information Services (DIMMIS) in the Digital Media Libraries program of the ACSys CRC;
* Resource Discovery Project at the Distributed Systems Technology CRC, Brisbane;
* Network Applications and Performance at the Advanced Network Systems Performance and Applications Group (ANSPAG).
The RDN CRC also funded work towards development of network infrastructure for Australian academic researchers in the form of the AARNet.
CRC's are collaborative organisations set up to promote interaction between Australian Industry and Academia and to stimulate Australian Research, Development, Commercial Activities and Education. The RDN CRC has brought together groups researching into networks and distributed computing at the host institutions and provided a common framework for wide area network experiments. This network framework was initially in the form of the Experimental Broadband Network provided by Telstra, and more recently in the form of next generation Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet), coordinated by the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee (AVCC).
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) - Founded in 1985, SDSC is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego. With a staff of more than 400 scientists, software developers and support personnel, SDSC is an international leader in data management, biosciences, geosciences, grid computing and visualization. Primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), SDSC is the leading-edge site for The National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), a 41-institution partnership to create computational environments for tomorrow's scientific discovery.
Scientific Computing and Visualization (SCV)
Group (Boston Univ) - The group within the Office of Information Technology at Boston Univ, provides specialized computing and communication resources geared towards research and education in computational science and engineering, scientific visualization, computer graphics and other disciplines which have high-performance computing requirements.
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