National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a major supporter of research at Cornell University. As Cornell’s advanced computing center, CAC supports Cornell’s NSF-funded researchers and their computing needs. CAC is also directly funded by NSF to help develop the nation’s cyberinfrastructure.
NSF Supercomputing Training and Education
The Center teamed with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), which is the lead
on a five-year
NSF grant.
TACC’s Sun AMD cluster will be one of the
most powerful general purpose HPC systems in the world. Cornell will provide user
training and education for the system.
NSF Cyberinfrastructure for the Nation’s Social Scientists
CAC is providing a NSF-funded petabyte data storage facility to support NSF’s
“Next-Generation Cyberinfrastructure Tools” project at Cornell. The
“Web Lab”
project will provide search tools to explore the 40-billion
page Internet Archive. Social scientists are eager to use the Internet to study
social life in cyberspace, including market trends, the spread of public opinion,
and the use of the Web to organize hate groups and terrorism.
NSF TeraGrid
Cornell connected to NSF’s
TeraGrid in order to provide the scientific community
with access to Cornell’s data resources and analysis tools.
