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Irene D. Lombardo, Staff Associate
SCOPE
Provides the resources and technical expertise to meet the
expanding need for high-end computation and information
technologies required by the U.S. academic community. The PACI
Program supports two partnerships, each consisting of a
leading-edge site and a significant number of partners. The two
leading-edge sites maintain a variety of high-end computer systems.
Together with partners who support smaller versions of these and
other computers and experimental systems, they constitute a
distributed metacomputing environment that is connected via
high-speed networks. PACI sites also participate in the
development, application, and testing of the necessary software,
tools, and algorithms that contribute to the expansion of this
"national grid" of interconnected, high-performance computing
systems.
The activities of the partnerships focus on the following:
accessibility to a diverse set of advanced and mid-range computer
engines, data storage systems, and experimental machine
architectures; enabling technologies--through the development of
software tools for parallel computation and software for use on the
partnerships' widely distributed and architecturally diverse
machines and data sources, thus enabling effective use of the
partnerships' very large distributed systems; application
technologies--engage groups in high-end applications to develop and
optimize their discipline-specific codes and software
infrastructures, making them available to the program as a whole
and to researchers in other areas; education outreach and
training--build a growing awareness and understanding of how to use
high performance computing and communications resources and broaden
the base of participation to help ensure the Nation's continued
world leadership in computational science and engineering.
NSF Document: NSF 96-31
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