Cyberinfrastructure resources for U.S. Scholarship: the TeraGrid

  • Authors:
  • Stephen C. Simms;Craig A. Stewart;Scott D. McCaulay

  • Affiliations:
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA;Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA;Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM SIGUCCS fall conference: moving mountains, blazing trails
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The TeraGrid is an advanced cyberinfrastructure funded by the National Science Foundation. It offers computational, data, and storage resources to the U.S. scholarly community. With more than 870 teraflops of computing capability and more than 30 petabytes of online and archival storage, researchers across the nation can expand their research far beyond that allowed by their local computing facilities. The TeraGrid uses portals and Science Gateways to ease access to its facilities, allowing researchers to use the resources they need without having to become computer programmers. Access to the TeraGrid is allocated through a peer-review process, and is not limited to the sciences. Researchers in engineering, humanities, and the arts also use the TeraGrid successfully.