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Introduction to the Alliance

• NSF Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI)
  • National Computational Science Alliance (UIUC/NCSA)
  • National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (UCSD/SD

• Alliance (alliance.ncsa.uiuc.edu)
  • Leading Edge Site at NCSA
  • Approx. 60 partnering institutions
  • Industrial Partners Program
  • Alliance Affiliates

• Boston University
  • Was a meta-center regional affiliate
  • Under new structure, a partner with NCSA

• Alliance Teams
  • Applications Technologies (AT)
    • Develop grid enabled scientific applications
  • Enabling Technologies (ET)
    • Develop the grid middleware
  • Partners for Advanced Computational Services (PACS)
    • Sites with Supercomputing facilities
    • Develop the grid infrastructure and access (hardware + people)
  • PACI - Education, Outreach and Training (PACI-EOT)
    • Develop the human resources

• Partners for Advanced Computational Services
  • Advanced Computational Resources and Services (Glenn Bresnahan, Boston)L2 Training (Charlie Bender, OSC)
  • Deployment (Danny Powell, Rice)
  • Communities (Ken Bishop, Kansas)
  • Access Grid (Frank Gilfeather, UNM; Janet Thompson, ACCESS-DC)

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