North Carolina Supercomputing Center


            _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
            North Carolina Supercomputing Center
            P.O. Box 12889 - 3021 Cornwallis Road
            Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709

            _E_m_a_i_l: info@flyer.ncsc.org

            _P_h_o_n_e: (919) 248-1100
            Fax:  (919) 248-1101


            _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n

            The mission of  the  North  Carolina  Supercomputing  Center
            (NCSC)  is  to  promote the growth of computational science,
            education, and research in North Carolina  institutions  and
            to foster the economic development of North Carolina through
            high-performance computing and its applications.   The  pri-
            mary  focus  of NCSC is to promote economic growth, computa-
            tional science  and  education  in  North  Carolina  through
            cooperative agreements with industry and research collabora-
            tions with academic institutions.  NCSC is a division of the
            Microelectronics  Center  of  North  Carolina (MCNC), a not-
            for-profit company.  NCSC offers high-performance  computing
            on the following platforms:


            Cray YMP8/432   128 MWords SSD         44 GBytes of disk storage
            Convex C220     128 MBytes of memory   2 GBytes of disk storage


            An IBM 3090-180J provides  mass  storage  services  for  the
            Center.   The  Center's  computers are connected via a high-
            speed  UltraNet  network.   The   visualization   laboratory
            includes:


            SGI Iris 280 GTX                Personal Iris 4D/20
            Stardent 3040 with AVS          Abekas Video Recorder A60
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            The information in this section is provided  in  accor-
            dance  with the copyright notice appearing at the front
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            NCSC provides user support through e-mail and telephone con-
            tacts;  it  also provides training courses on a wide variety
            of supercomputing topics.   NCSC  has  a  complete  training
            facility  with  lecture facilities, video taping capability,
            and a hands-on training laboratory  populated  with  NCD  X-
            window  terminals.   NCSC  is a partner in the VISTAnet pro-
            ject, a component of  the  NREN  project  sponsored  by  the
            National  Science  Foundation.   NCSC  is installing a HiPPI
            based internal network for high-speed visualization and mass
            storage  services.   The Research Institute within NCSC pro-
            motes  interdisciplinary  and  computational  approaches  to
            challenging  problems  through collaboration with industrial
            and academic partners.

            _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s

            NCSC is a member  of  CoNCert,  a  state-wide  network  with
            bandwidth  up to T3, operated by MCNC's Communications Divi-
            sion (see section 5.23  of  the  _I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t  _R_e_s_o_u_r_c_e  _G_u_i_d_e).
            CoNCert  accesses  the Internet through SURAnet (see section
            5.17 of the _G_u_i_d_e).  A state-wide two-way  video  and  voice
            conferencing network, also operated by MCNC's Communications
            Division, connects NCSC with universities across  the  state
            for collaboration and training.

            The network address of NNSC Cray is flyer.ncsc.org.   NCSC's
            mail server is ncsc.ncsc.org.

            _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _T_h_e _C_e_n_t_e_r

            Resources are allocated on a peer-review basis to  research-
            ers  affiliated with North Carolina's education system at no
            cost to the researchers.

            _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n

            Executive Director
                    Lawrence Lee, Executive Director
                    (larrylee@ncsc.org).
                    (919) 248-1149
            Industry Partnerships
                    Jim Brooking, Director of Industry Partnerships
                    (brooking@ncsc.org).
                    (919) 248-1145
            Peer Review Allocations



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                    Bruce Loftis, Research Staff
                    (bruce@ncsc.org).
                    (919) 248-1124
            Research Collaborations
                    Ken Flurchick, Research Staff
                    (kenf@ncsc.org).
                    (919) 248-1121
            Technology and Computer Operations
                    Jeff Huskamp, Director of Technology and Operations
                    (huskamp@ncsc.org)
                    (919) 248-1164








































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