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San Diego, CA. , U.S.A. 



NATIONAL ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING CENTER 

 University of California at San Diego 



"Big Science" Descriptor : Supercomputers for scientific and engineering 

 research 



Description of Facility/Instrument ; The facility is to be managed by 



GA Technologies. It will be centered around a Cray XMP/48 machine. 

 Including four parallel processors and eight megawords of memory, 

 a state-of-tbeart supercomputer manufactured by Cray Research 

 Corporation. A consortium of 19 universities around the Nation 

 will be connected via high-speed networks to the San Diego center. 

 The facility will be supported by the State of California. 



Date of Construction : Late 1985 or early 1986. 



Construction Cost : 1984 $$ : $96.1 million 



Present International Cooperation 



Nationallty(s) of Ownership : U.S. 

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

 Natlonallty(s) of Management Staff : Not yet operational 

 Natlonality(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 

 supercomputers. 



The cost includes five years of funding for facility opera- 

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

 facility will be $58.4 million. The remainder will be supplied 

 from local sources. 



See also the NATIONAL ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING CENTERS 

 to be established at the John Von Neumann Center at Princeton 

 University; the Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and 

 Engineering at Cornell University; and the University of Illinois 

 In Urbana-Champaign. 



