Who should use 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 is an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership-class resources at 11 partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. TeraGrid resources include more than a petaflop 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. This combination of resources makes the TeraGrid the world's largest, most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research.

The TeraGrid is intended for researchers in the United States whose scientific research can effectively take advantage of the TeraGrid's high performance resources, software, and specialized services:

• Supercomputers: High performance compute resources on the TeraGrid can help you run applications more quickly and perform computations that would otherwise take an unreasonable amount of time. Visualization resources let you model the results of large, complex data sets.
• Data resources: Storage resources on the TeraGrid offer large capacities to manage the vast amounts of data produced by scientific instruments, applications, and simulations. TeraGrid's high-speed networks let you access and share your data quickly, securely, and transparently from any computer on the Internet. For more, see How can I use the TeraGrid to store data?
  
  
• Software: Applications are available on all TeraGrid resources to help you run jobs and transfer data across multiple resources. Site-specific software packages accommodate specialized research needs.
  
• Data resources: The TeraGrid offers access to several organized and searchable scientific data collections. Many collections have web interfaces for retrieving and displaying data.

  For more on TeraGrid data collections, see the Data Collections table in the TeraGrid User Portal.

• Consulting: Documentation, training, and consulting are available to help you optimize your use of TeraGrid resources. For more, see How do I get help using the TeraGrid?

For more, see Who is eligible to apply for an XSEDE allocation?

This document was developed with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 0503697 to the University of Chicago and subcontracted to Indiana University. Additional support was provided by IU through its participation in the TeraGrid, which is supported by the NSF under Grants No. 0833618, SCI451237, SCI535258, and SCI504075. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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