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Deliver sustained performance of one to two petaflops for many real-world scientific and engineering applications. These are codes scientists and engineers use every day, not simple benchmarks commonly used to rank high-performance computers.
Enable the next generation of science and engineering applications—those that use multiple models at multiple scales to describe natural and engineered events and systems, such as modeling cells, organs, and organisms; predicting the impact of hurricanes, including the impact of the storm surge; and designing aircraft.
Prepare the next generation of leaders in high-performance computing to exploit petascale computing for scientific discovery and engineering innovation through a new Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering aimed at graduate students and beyond.
Encourage broad and substantial changes to undergraduate curriculum through an ambitious education program that is tied closely to hands-on research, preparing the next generation of teachers, scientists, and workers to use high-performance computing.
Build upon the success of the strong industry relationships that we and our partners in the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation have established, bringing petascale computing to bear on industry's most challenging problems.
Intense collaboration with discipline scientists, which will pave the way for widespread successful use of the system. Design of the system alone included analyzing more than 20 applications in detail—from codes that describe protein structure and the coagulation of blood platelets to those that model the propagation of earthquakes and the composition of the universe.
Ongoing partnerships with Illinois' Department of Computer Science and Coordinated Science Laboratory, IBM, and dozens of campuses, national labs, and educational institutes around the country through the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation.
A history of NCSA and Illinois building cyberinfrastructure and putting it to good use, including the transistor, Illiac, NCSA Mosaic, and cluster computing. Together, we know how to deploy and maintain a national resource and how to deliver worldwide impact.
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