About CIP
SDSC and NCSA each have long, rich histories of providing leading-edge resources to the national science and engineering communities, of working directly with specific application teams to port and optimize codes to high-end resources, and of partnering with computer scientists to build tools to enable scientists to more effectively utilize high-end resources. Both centers also have successful histories of transferring technologies to the broader community. Each can point to impressive and important contributions that have enabled social as well as scientific transformations: Mosaic, Storage Resource Broker, HDF, NCSA HTTPd, NPACI Rocks, Cluster-in-a-Box, SDSC Image tools, etc. Today, increasingly complex systems required by new collaborative scientific application teams have opened up a new era in enabling science, one that requires an even broader collection of skills and resources than any one institution can provide. The NCSA/SDSC-led CyberInfrastructure Partnership (CIP) serves as a model for close coordination and cooperation. With its extensive combined experience and capabilities, linked with a close collaboration between two of the world's largest scientific HPC centers, CIP can rapidly develop, deploy, and demonstrate innovative approaches in Scientific Grid Computing for possible integration into larger Grid Computing communities.
The CyberInfrastructure Partnership is funded by the National Science Foundation and includes the following partners: NCSA and SDSC.