Allocations of computing resources are available from TeraGrid for research and education. Educators may request course accounts for use by their class. Startup and education accounts may be requested at any time and are processed within about two weeks. There are over 20 computing systems available on TeraGrid that currently comprise nearly a petaflop of computing power, and the resources are continuing to be expanded through funding from the National Science Foundation.
Information is available on "Getting Started" with TeraGrid at www.teragrid.org/userinfo/getting_started.php.
General information about TeraGrid is available at www.teragrid.org.
OSG provides scientists with more than 70 production sites offering over 20,000 CPUs and 4 Petabytes of storage to advance their research. Computing and educational resources on high throughput computing are available for students, faculty and professionals, and educators can arrange for course accounts to be used in their class. These training accounts may be requested at any time through an easy process that takes up to three days for approval.
Please visit the "Education" section www.opensciencegrid.org/Education for instructions on how to get started.
More details can be found at our official site www.opensciencegrid.org.
In 2011, a new NSF-funded petascale computing system, Blue Waters, will go online at the University of Illinois. The goal of this facility is to open up new possibilities in science and engineering by providing computational capability that makes it possible for investigators to tackle much larger and more complex research challenges across a wide spectrum of domains. The purpose of this solicitation is to invite research groups that have a compelling science or engineering challenge that will require petascale computing resources to submit requests for allocations of resources on the Blue Waters system. Proposers must be prepared to demonstrate that they have a science or engineering research problem that requires and can effectively exploit the petascale computing capabilities offered by Blue Waters. Proposals from or including junior researchers are encouraged as one of the goals of this solicitation is to build a community capable of using petascale computing.
PRAC proposals are due March 17, 2010. More info: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08529/nsf08529.htm