What is the extreme Digital (XD) program?
Note: After ten years of service to the national science and engineering community, the TeraGrid project has ended. It is succeeded by a new National Science Foundation (NSF) program, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). You should move any data stored on TeraGrid systems to an alternate storage resource. If you have leftover service units on your TeraGrid allocation, or if your research requires further use of high performance computational, visualization, storage, and network resources, consider applying for an allocation on one or more XSEDE digital services.
Current National Science Foundation (NSF) awards for the operation, user support, and enhancement of the TeraGrid will expire in 2011. The Office of Cyberinfratructure's eXtreme Digital (XD) program is the next phase in the NSF's ongoing effort to build a cyberinfrastructure that delivers high-end digital services, providing US researchers and educators with the capability to work with extremely large amounts of digitally represented information.
The primary goal of the XD program is to enable major advances in science and engineering research, in the integration of research and education, and in broadening participation in science and engineering by under-represented groups, by providing researchers and educators with usable access to extreme-scale digital resources beyond those typically available on a typical campus, together with the interfaces, consulting support, and training necessary to facilitate their use.
For more, see XD Transition on the TeraGrid web site.
Last modified on September 07, 2011.
