Why is University of California San Diego an appropriate institution to launch this initiative?
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) has a number of unique features to help lead this initiative. First, UCSD is the home of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), which is the leading edge site for the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI). NPACI is the investment by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide high-end computing for the broad academic research community. In addition, SDSC on behalf of NPACI, is one of four initial sites of the TeraGrid, NSF s further investment in developing a grid. UCSD is also the home of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology, which is looking at technologies that will expand the Grid to the wireless world. UCSD has a broad set of collaborations with individuals in the Asia Pacific Region, which we will capitalize on. UCSD is itself an institution that is on the Pacific Rim. This particular proposal has the strong support of the following offices within the Unive
