Resources Computational simulation, data analysis and visualization are the life's blood of many of today's leading researchers. As such, the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies has a renowned high-performance computing institution at its heart, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. NCSA has contributed significantly to the birth and growth of the worldwide cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering, operating some of the world's most powerful supercomputers and developing the software infrastructure needed to efficiently use these systems. The center is an international leader in deploying robust high-performance computing resources and in working with research communities to develop new computing and software technologies. Many of the systems at NCSA are supported by the National Science Foundation. They're used by the national research community and allocated by a centralized board that parcels out time on NSF-funded systems around the country. NCSA's new Abe cluster, however, will be a shared resource, with about half of the compute cycles allocated through the standard NSF process and the other half serving Institute researchers, other University and state strategic initiatives, and NCSA's Private Sector Program. Abe provides 88.3 teraflops, or more than 88 trillion mathematical calculations per second. |