Purdue TeraGrid
TeraGrid is an ambitious national project undertaken by the U.S. to build the world's largest, most comprehensive grid computing cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research. Purdue University is one of nine TeraGrid partner sites. Purdue is partnering with Indiana University to connect to the Teragrid HUB in Chicago. Purdue also contributes part of its computing resources to TeraGrid as well as their visualization facility (Envision Center), instrumentation (PTO remote sensing), and data collections to the TeraGrid.
In 2003, Purdue University and Indiana University were awarded $3 million via the "Terascale Extensions Program" (TEP) proposal solicitation by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Purdue/Indiana proposal, called the IP-grid (Indiana Purdue grid), connects Purdue and Indiana Universities at 20 gigabits/second (Gbps) to the 40 Gbps TeraGrid national backbone. In 2004, Purdue participated along with the other eight sites in a joint, $30 million/year TeraGrid Maintenance and Operations proposal to the NSF.
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