TeraGrid Resource Provider
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee is a product of a $65M Track 2B award by the National Science Foundation. The mission of NICS is to enable the scientific discoveries of researchers nationwide by providing leading- edge computational resources and education, outreach and training for under-represented groups.
System
NICS has established a major new petascale computing environment fully integrated with the TeraGrid with access to a 1,030-teraflops Cray XT5 system. The system, called Kraken, contains 16,512 compute sockets, 129 terabytes of memory, and 3.3 petabytes of raw disk space. The XT5 system delivers in excess of 700 million CPU hours per year to the TeraGrid.
Kraken is located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the world's most powerful computing complex.
