National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) Facilities
- Alliance High-Performance Resources - http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Alliance/HPC.html
- Boston University - SGI Origin 2000, SGI Power Challenge Array
- NCSA - HP/Convex Exemplar SPP-2000, SGI Origin 2000 (Visualization & Virtual Environments Software)
- University of Kentucky - HP/Convex Exemplar SPP-2200
- University of New Mexico -- Albuquerque HPCC - IBM SP, AltaCluster
- University of New Mexico -- Maui HPCC - IBM SP
- University of Wisconsion - Condor Flock
- Access
- Applying for Alliance Allocations
- Overview - http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/alliance/applying/Overview.html
- Allocation Levels
- 4000 hours or less - small allocations reviewed by individual partner sites.
- 4000-40000 hours - Alliance Allocation Board (AAB) - peer reviewed quarterly
- 40000+ hours - National Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) - peer reviewed bi-annually
- Each site of course has different facilities, procedures, review policies, software, help facilities, etc...