Largest TeraGrid Allocation Ever!

The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), received the largest NSF compute allocation ever! --a whopping 15 million CPU hours on TeraGrid resources. The TeraGrid is the largest cyberinfrastructure facility available for nonclassified use in the US. The TeraGrid is a centerpiece of the efforts of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to enable new, 21st century science innovations. The TeraGrid provides a network of supercomputers with well over 100 teraflops of computing power, and data storage facilities to store more than 15 petabytes of data, high-resolution visualization environments, and toolkits for grid computing, all connected through a very high-capacity network. The SCEC community will use this large allocation to support simulations of the realistic models required to predict the impacts of massive earthquakes. The SCEC simulations not only are compute-intensive, but data-intensive, and the SCEC community currently stores more than 150 Terabytes (150 X 10^12 bytes) of data at SDSC. A portion of this resource will be used by department researchers Kim Bak Olsen and Steve Day to model earthquake strong ground motion and wave propagation.