High Performance Computing
May 13, 2008
May 13, 2008
In addition to the University of Kentucky's Supercomputer, our researchers can get easy access to high performance computing resources across the country and around the world. Computing time is available at no cost, but an application is required.
TeraGrid is an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eleven partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource.
Using high-performance network connections, the TeraGrid integrates high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and high-end experimental facilities around the country. Currently, TeraGrid resources include more than 750 teraflops of computing capability and more than 30 petabytes of online and archival data storage, with rapid access and retrieval over high-performance networks. Researchers can also access more than 100 discipline-specific databases. With this combination of resources, the TeraGrid is the world's largest, most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research.
TeraGrid is coordinated through the Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG) at the University of Chicago, working in partnership with the Resource Provider sites: Indiana University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Purdue University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, the National Institute for Computational Sciences, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Vikram Gazula is the University of Kentucky Campus Champion. Through Vikram, this program will bring UK researchers direct access to the TeraGrid and will give input to its staff, resource allocations for individuals and assistance in using those resources.
This program will serve as:
Contact Vikram by email at gazula@ccs.uky.edu or by phone at +1-859-257-8748.
The University of Kentucky is part of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), a consortium of over sixty universities across the US. SURA jointly operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility on behalf of the US Department of Energy through Jefferson Science Associates, LLC - and runs the SURA Residence Facility. SURA also promotes initiatives in nuclear physics, information technologies, coastal research and technology commercialization.
SURAGrid is a consortium of organizations collaborating and combining resources to help bring grid technology to the level of seamless, shared infrastructure. The vision for SURAgrid is to orchestrate access to a rich set of distributed capabilities in order to meet diverse users' needs. Capabilities to be cultivated include locally contributed resources, project-specific tools and environments, highly specialized or HPC access, and gateways to national and international cyberinfrastructure.
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The "Computational Chemistry Grid" (CCG) is a virtual organization that provides access to high performance computing resources for computational chemistry with distributed support and services, intuitive interfaces and measurable quality of service. The CCG client, GridChem, is a Java desktop application that provides an interface to integrate the hardware, software and middleware resources necessary to solve quantum chemistry problems using grid technologies.