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 MATLAB on the TeraGrid Project
Cornell University in partnership with Purdue University received a National Science Foundation
award to deploy The MathWorks MATLAB on the TeraGrid as an experimental computing resource. This initiative will provide seamless parallel MATLAB computational services to remote desktop and Science Gateway users with complex analytic and fast simulation requirements.
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 Ranger is one of the
most powerful general purpose HPC systems in the world.
Cornell is providing online user training and
educational workshops for the system.
NSF Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid
Cornell received a 3-year NSF award to build a Social Science TeraGrid Gateway.
The goal of the project are to continue to provide existing
Virtual Research Data Center (VirtualRDC)
services to the research community, increase storage capacity, and
continue the successful collaboration with one of the largest providers
of synthetic data to the U.S. statistical community, the U.S. Census Bureau.
Tools will be provided to effectively harness TeraGrid computing resources.
CAC will provide TeraGrid networking, computing, and disk farm resources
for the project.
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.
Digital Data Collections
ArXiv, eBird, Gramene, Kinetic Models for Design, and the ALPHA Pulsar project are examples of
digital data collections
hosted by Cornell with support from the National Science
Foundation.
