ARCHIVED: On the TeraGrid, what is a Roaming allocation?
Note: After ten years of service to the national science and engineering community, the TeraGrid project has ended. It is succeeded by a new National Science Foundation (NSF) program, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). You should move any data stored on TeraGrid systems to an alternate storage resource. If you have leftover service units on your TeraGrid allocation, or if your research requires further use of high performance computational, visualization, storage, and network resources, consider applying for an allocation on one or more XSEDE digital services.
Note: Roaming allocations on the TeraGrid are no longer available for request. However, users who already have Roaming access through their current allocations can continue to use it.
A Roaming allocation gives you access to a large subset of TeraGrid compute resources as part of one TeraGrid allocation. Roaming allows a research team to take advantage of multiple compute resources via grid-based software and services, and is useful for porting code, evaluating different architectures, and conducting multi-site, multi-resource runs.
Last modified on January 31, 2012.
