How will the TeraGrid accelerate advances in science and engineering?
Simply put, TeraGrid provides scientists with an environment that will allow them to perform more detailed computational experiments and to conduct more experiments within a given period of time, resulting in more productivity. In addition, TeraGrid is partnering with domain science communities to make high-performance services and resources available to much broader audiences than have traditionally used high-performance computing centers. Two TeraGrid initiatives focus on these goals: (1) The first is an Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (ASTA) program, designed to partner TeraGrid user support staff with applications aiming to exploit the TeraGrid as a distributed system, for example, driving complex workflow using resources at multiple TeraGrid resource provider sites. (2) Second, complementing this work, is the Science Gateways initiative. TeraGrid partners with domain science teams who are providing resources, applications, databases, and other tools to their user commun
