What is the TeraGrid?

The TeraGrid is a large distributed cyberinfrastructure available for non-classified scientific research. The TeraGrid is funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to enable science innovation, and coordinated through the Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG) at the University of Chicago.

By obtaining a TeraGrid allocation, your research team will have access to leadership-class compute, visualization, and storage resources, software packages, and advanced support, through the partnership of the following Resource Provider (RP) sites:

• Indiana University
• National Institute for Computational Sciences
• Louisiana Optical Network Initiative
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
• Purdue University
• San Diego Supercomputer Center
• Texas Advanced Computing Center
• University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory
• National Center for Atmospheric Research

TeraGrid resources are connected using high-performance networks to provide researchers with more than a petaflop of computing power, high-resolution visualization environments, and data storage facilities to store more than 30 petabytes of data. Researchers also can access more than 100 discipline-specific databases, and use a wide variety of scientific applications and grid computing toolkits.

You can access your allocated resources easily through the TeraGrid User Portal. For more, see What's the recommended method for everyday access to the TeraGrid?

For information about applying for a TeraGrid allocation or getting an account on an existing allocation, see How do I get started using the TeraGrid?

For further information about compute and visualization resources on the TeraGrid, see the Resource Catalog in the TeraGrid User Support documentation.

For more information about TeraGrid software, see the following pages in the TeraGrid User Support documentation:

• Coordinated TeraGrid Software and Services (CTSS)
• TeraGrid Software Repository
• Visualization software

For more on TeraGrid data collections, see the Data Collections table in the TeraGrid User Portal.

This document was developed with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 0503697 to the University of Chicago and subcontracted to Indiana University. Additional support was provided by IU through its participation in the TeraGrid, which is supported by the NSF under Grants No. 0833618, SCI451237, SCI535258, and SCI504075. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

Also see:

• How can I use the TeraGrid to store data?
• Where can I find news and announcements about the TeraGrid?