TeraGrid: Transforming Terascale Science

TeraGrid is an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eight partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. Deployment of TeraGrid was completed in September 2004, bringing over 40 teraflops of computing power and nearly 2 petabytes of rotating storage, and specialized data analysis and visualization resources into production, interconnected at 10-30 gigabits/second via a dedicated national network. This talk will overview the current state of the TeraGrid and will focus on the terascale science being enabled by such a powerful infrastructure. Future directions and implications of this national cyberinfrastructure project will also be discussed.