Petascale computing on the TeraGrid

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.

The TeraGrid has surpassed one petaflop of computing capability, enabling researchers to perform complex scientific computational, simulation, and visualization tasks that require petascale architecture and the management of petabytes of data.

The TeraGrid Extreme Scalability working group helps researchers effectively use petascale environments to help maximize scientific output and user productivity. The following projects, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI), are using TeraGrid's petascale environments to perform highly advanced scientific analysis and simulations:

• Understanding the Causes of Continental Intraplate Tectonomagmatism: A Case Study in the Pacific Northwest (see award abstract #0506914)
• High-Resolution Mantle Convection Simulation on Petascale Computers
• Storm Surge Modeling on Petascale Computers
• Towards Petascale Simulation of Urban Earthquake Impacts
• Petaflops Geospace Simulations
• Accelerating Nano-scale Transistor Innovation though Petascale Simulation
• Petascale Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Petascale Hierarchical Simulations Of Biopolymer Translocation Through Silicon Nitride And Silica Nanopores And Nanofluidic Channels
• Enabling Petascale Applications in the Chemical Sciences
• High Performance Neural Computing
• Petascale Algorithms for Particulate Flows
• New Coupling Strategies and Capabilities for Petascale Climate Modeling
• Multigrid QCD at the Petascale
• Supernova Simulation With CHIMERA
• Novel Scalable Algorithms in Density Functional Theory Calculations
• Enabling Discovery in High Reynolds Number Turbulence via Advanced Tools for Petascale Simulation and Analysis
• Toward Petascale Cosmology with GADGET
• First-Principles Molecular Dynamics for Petascale Computers
• Multiscale Software for Quantum Simulations in Nano Science and Technology
• Enabling Earthquake System Science Through Petascale Calculations (PetaShake)
• Magnetoshperic Electron Density (see award abstract #0751007)
• Metalloproteins - Computational Challenges, Methods, and Tools
• Multicore Optimization of an Astrophysical Simulation Code using Performance Annotations
• New Capabilities for the Enzo Community Code in the Petascale Era (see award abstract #0808184)
• Multiscale Models and Petaflops Simulations on the Human Brain Vascular Network

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