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Princeton, NJ., U.S.A. 



NATIONAL ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING CENTER at the 

 John Von Neumann Center 

 Princeton University 



"Big Science" Descriptor : Supercomputers for scientific and engineering 

 research 



Description of Facility/Instrument : The supercomputer will be a Cyber 

 205 manufactured by Control Data Corporation, connected to form 

 megawords of memory and ten gigabytes of storage. The machine 

 will be upgraded to the ETA-10, a multiprocessor supercomputer 

 which currently is being developed by ETA Systems, Inc., a spin- 

 off of Control Data, and will be available in 1987. Also Included 

 are an extensive files system and graphics subsystem. The center 

 will be managed by the Consortium for Scientific Computing, a 

 collection of 12 universities. The facility will be supported 

 partially by the State of New Jersey. 



Date of Construction : Late 1985 or early 1986. 



Construction Cost ; 1984 $$ : $123.5 million 



Present International Cooperation 



Nationality(s) of Ownership : U.S. 

 Natlonallty(s) of Operational Funding : U.S. 

 Nationallty(s) of Management Staff ; Not yet operational. 

 Nationality(s) of Researchers : Not yet operational. 



Other Information : In response to the expressed need of U.S. researchers 

 for access to supercomputers, the National Science Foundation 

 (NSF) announced in February 1985 the selection of four institutions 

 that will receive approximately $200 million over the next five 

 years to establish and operate National Advanced Scientific Com- 

 puting Centers. Awards will range from $7 million to $13 million 

 per year over the grant period. Each award will have a cost-sharing 

 provision in which the States, industries, and institutions will 

 contribute an amount that will approximately double the NSF award. 

 The centers should be available for use by the scientific and 

 engineering research communities in late 1985 or early 1986. Plans 

 call for the supercomputer centers to be connected via a nationwide 

 highspeed data network that will allow researchers to communicate 

 with the centers from any location. In addition to providing 

 high quality advanced computing systems for researchers, the 

 centers will educate students and researchers in the use of super- 

 computers. 



The cost includes five years of funding for facility operations 

 and maintenance. The NSF component of the funding for this facility 

 will be $69.2 million. The remainder will be supplied from local 

 sources. 



