NCSA will coordinate the 1996 MetaCenter Allocations. The four national supercomputer centers funded by NSF operate high- performance computers and make computing resources available to the American scientific and engineering research communities under general policy guidelines established by NSF.
In 1992, the centers formed a collaborative national MetaCenter for computational science and engineering. The MetaCenter Allocations Program assists researchers in exploiting the concept of distributed heterogeneous computing, bringing to bear whatever mix of resources best serves the problem-solving efforts of each research project. For projects that are computationally massive or resource intensive, which require resources across many hardware platforms, this program provides a single mechanism by which researchers may request any combination of resources at any of the NSF-sponsored centers.
At the end of October 1995, application forms became available for the 1996 MetaCenter Allocations Program. The deadline for submitting applications is January 8, 1996. Proposals will be reviewed by a joint panel drawn from the review boards of the four NSF supercomputer centers, called the MetaCenter Allocations Committee (MAC), that meets annually. Grants will be provided for a one-year period beginning on April 1, 1996.
To obtain a copy of the application form and instructions, please send email to mac1996@ncsa.uiuc.edu. Application information is also available on the World Wide Web.
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