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- SDSC - San Diego Supercomputer Center
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- San Diego Supercomputer Center
- PO Box 85608
- San Diego, CA 92138-5608
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- _E-_m_a_i_l: consultant@sdsc.edu
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (619)534-5000
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is one of five
- national supercomputer centers funded primarily by the
- National Science Foundation. Its mission is to provide
- supercomputer time to scientists and researchers around the
- country. SDSC is located on the campus of the University of
- California at San Diego and is administered by General Atom-
- ics. Major policy guidance comes from a steering committee
- representing the 25 SDSC consortium institutions, which
- include major California universities and all campuses of
- the University of California and the California State
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- Computer resources. SDSC offers access to
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- o+ A CRAY X-MP/48 supercomputer (peak speed 840 MFLOPS),
- running the Cray Time-Sharing System (CTSS) operating
- system and 120 UNIX utilities, with 8 million words of
- memory and 13.2 GBytes of local disk storage.
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- o+ An SCS-40 minisupercomputer (peak speed 44 MFLOPS),
- running CTSS, with 16 million words of memory, 16 mil-
- lion words of extended memory, and 4 GBytes of local
- disk storage.
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- o+ A Supertek S-1 minisupercomputer (peak speed 25
- MFLOPS), running CTSS, with four million words of
- memory and 2.4 GBytes of local disk storage. (This
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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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- June 21, 1989 NNSC Section 1.10, Page 1
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- machine is being used for system development and test-
- ing but will be made available to users at some point
- in the future.)
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- o+ A long-term file storage system (CFS) consisting of 60
- Gbytes of disk storage and essentially infinite tape
- cartridge storage.
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- These systems are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
- except during scheduled maintenance and system development.
- In 1988, these systems were available nearly 97% of the
- time.
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- Two printed manuals (An Introductory User Guide and Sum-
- maries) are mailed to all new users. Two-day introductory
- workshops are held approximately once per month on-site but
- are also available at your location with confirmed atten-
- dance of at least 20. Other sources of information include
- SDSC's monthly newsletter, Gather/Scatter, an annual report
- of science highlights, more than 130 online documents, and
- 40 electronic bulletin boards.
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- SDSC offers telephone and E-mail consulting 8:00 a.m.-5:00
- p.m. (Pacific time) M-F at (619)534-5100.
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
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- SDSC is on the Internet. It is also attached to SPAN, HEP-
- net, MFEnet and CSUnet.
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _T_h_e _C_e_n_t_e_r
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- How to apply for time. 31,000 CPU hours each year are
- available for academic and industrial use. Most of the time
- is allocated at no charge to researchers on the basis of
- peer review by the SDSC Allocation Committee or by the SDSC
- consortium institutions. Allocations by the committee are
- made independent of institutional affiliation or funding
- source. The projects must be non-proprietary. Applications
- are accepted four times per year (for 12-month allocations)
- for time beginning 1 January, 1 April, 1 July, or 1 October.
- Applications must be received at least 45 days prior to the
- quarter in which you request your allocation to begin (e.g.,
- the deadline is 15 February for time beginning 1 April).
- For more information, contact the SDSC consultants at
- (619)534-5100 and request the Overview brochure (which con-
- tains the application form).
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- A small fraction of time for allocation is available on a
- non-peer-reviewed basis to industrial cost-sharing partici-
- pants. Such projects may be proprietary but must be unclas-
- sified. For more information, contact Bob Randall at
- (619)534-5060.
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