development, and 2) the fostering of interdisciplinary collaboration among DOD and other 

 Federal agencies and laboratories, industry, academic partners, and other research and develop- 

 ment organizations to solve important problems in defense and national security. Initiated in 

 coordination and consultation with NSF using non-HPCC funds, this Consoilium is an example 

 of how HPCC technologies are being deployed on a national scale. 



Scalable parallel systems are also located at the NSF sponsored Supercomputer Centers - the Cornell 

 Theory Center (CTC). the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) at Chanipaign- 

 Urbana, the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). 

 Plans are underway to establish a "metacenter" in which these Centers will be interconnected via high 

 performance networks, allowing their supercomputing resources to be used as if they were an integrat- 

 ed high performance computing system. 



NSF's Supercomputer Centers offer an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment for industrial 

 and academic researchers. More than 100 corporations have formal affiliations with the Centers 

 resulting in transition of enabling technologies and expertise. The Centers also work directly with 

 vendors to identify and predict the needs of the computational science research community and to 

 develop and test hardware and software systems. Special programs at the Centers are funded by other 

 agencies, including the NIH Biomedical Research Technology program in biomedical computing 

 applications at CTC and NCSA. Other federally-supported high performance computing activities not 

 coordinated or budgeted through the HPCC Program, such as the National Center for Atmospheric 

 Research (NCAR) in Boulder. CO. maintain important connections with HPCC. 



DOE and NASA have also established HPCRCs. These include the DOE facilities at Los Alamos 

 National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory and NASA facilities at Ames Research 

 Center and the Goddard Space Flight Center. 



The Consortium on Advanced Modeling of Regional Air Quality (CAMRAQ) is working to develop 

 pollution modeling systems, such as the regional environmental impact of pollutants including ozone, 

 sulfate, nitrates, and articulates. Participants include: 



Federal organizations 



Defense Nuclear Agency 

 EPA 



NASA 

 NOAA 



Aeronomy Laboratory 



Atmospheric Research Laboratory 



National Meteorological Center 

 National Park Service 

 U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory 



Federally-chartered institutions 



National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council 



State and local organizations 



California Air Resources Board 



Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management 



South Coast Air Quality Management District 



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