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National Institute for Computational Sciences University of Tennessee and ORNL partnership

National Institute for Computational Sciences University of Tennessee and ORNL partnership. NICS is the 2 nd NSF Track 2 center Building on strengths of UT and ORNL Systems are now in production Series of computers culminating in a 1 PF system in 2009. NICS Resources. Kraken

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National Institute for Computational Sciences University of Tennessee and ORNL partnership

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  1. National Institute for Computational Sciences University of Tennesseeand ORNL partnership • NICS is the 2nd NSF Track 2center • Building on strengths of UT and ORNL • Systems are now in production • Series of computers culminating in a 1 PF system in 2009

  2. NICS Resources • Kraken • 99,000+ core Cray XT5 – first academic petaflops • Name inspired by the legendary sea monsters of gargantuan size said to have dwelt off the coasts of Norway and Iceland

  3. Guiding Considerations at NICS • Mission: enable scientific discoveries by researchers nationwide by providing leading-edge computational resources, support for their effective use, and leveraging partnership opportunities • Enable a wide range of computational science: small to petascale • Leverage Cray architecture – identify small and large applications that benefit from unique Cray environment • Co-location with ORNL is an advantage for NICS • Leverage: physical environment, operations, power costs, vendor presence, archival storage, software, tools, experienced staff, joint training and outreach, documentation, visualization resources, … • Collaboration with partners – cyberinfrastructure development, operational policies and procedures, training, outreach, documentation, proposal opportunities, … • 20% of NICS resources targeted to outreach – nationally and in the State of Tennessee – academic and industry • Outreach goal: create new computational scientists

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