TeraGrid Survey: You Can Help Out

TeraGrid is an open infrastructure that combines large-scale computing resources -- supercomputers, storage, and scientific visualization systems, and the like -- at several partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. All in all, TeraGrid provides more than 250 teraflops of computing power and 30 petabytes of storage interconnected via a dedicated national network. Among other things, TeraGrid can do simulations at a rate of 100,000,000 times per second. In other words, TeraGrid is pretty cool.

Of course, this isn't the first time I've mentioned TeraGrid. Recent notes include TeraGrid's Animation "Render Farm" at SIGGRAPH 2007, as well as TeraGrid's role in solving Rubik's Cube in record time. (Alas, in that same article I mistakenly said that the URL for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, which is part of TeraGrid, was www.psu.edu, which points to Penn State University. Bill Weaver, a native Pennsylvanian and professor at La Salle University was nice enough to set me straight. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's URL is www.psc.edu. Thanks Bill.)

But my point here is that TeraGrid is looking for feedback via means of a couple of surveys:

• If, by chance, you have a grant to use one or more of the National Science Foundation sponsored High Performance Computing (HPC) systems listed at www.teragrid.org/userinfo/hardware/resources.php, they ask that you respond to this survey.

• If, on the other hand, you're like most of us and just like to know what's going on with this cool stuff, they ask that you participate in the HPC Education Survey.
  

It takes just a few minutes and I'm sure your input would be useful and greatly appreciated. And on that note, I'm off to the Education Survey right now.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 10:35 AM  Permalink