LONI Joins TeraGrid
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) a prestigious grant for $2.2 million that allows Louisiana to joins the TeraGrid, a backbone of national cyberinfrastructure. TeraGrid is a nationwide NSF-funded open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eleven partner sites across the country to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. The award will fund initiatives for Louisiana researchers to develop broader use of LONI resources as well as underwrite the operations costs associated with joining TeraGrid.
As a member of TeraGrid, LONI will contribute one half of its centerpiece supercomputer, Queen Bee's, computational cycles to the TeraGrid community. LONI researchers will in turn be able to utilize the TeraGrid's national resources.
For detail, see the news of Louisiana Joins TeraGrid on HPCwire.
