
114 Grid Computing in Research and Education
Introduction
This cyber-infrastructure aims to solve the problem of emerging terascale
applications. It encompasses computing intensive applications, requiring multiple
teraflop computing systems (HPC). Data intensive systems, necessitating
creation or mining of multi-terabyte data archives to extract insights
(Visualization) and others, must be coupled to scientific instruments, such as
microscopes and telescopes (remote instrumentation).
Organization
The project currently integrates nine major super computing sites across the US,
as seen in Figure A-1.
Note: TeraGrid is a effort to build the world's ...