NSF Org:	AGS Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Initial Amendment Date:	August 5, 2005
Latest Amendment Date:	February 4, 2009
Award Number:	0540688
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Stephen Meacham smeacham@nsf.gov  (703)292-7599 AGS  Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences GEO  Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date:	August 1, 2005
End Date:	July 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$0.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$100,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2005 = $100,000.00
History of Investigator:	Volodymyr Kindratenko (Principal Investigator) kindrtnk@illinois.edu Richard Loft (Co-Principal Investigator) Robert Pennington (Former Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 506 S WRIGHT ST URBANA IL  US  61801-3620 (217)333-2187
Sponsor Congressional District:	13
Primary Place of Performance:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 506 S WRIGHT ST URBANA IL  US  61801-3620
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	13
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	Y8CWNJRCNN91
Parent UEI:	V2PHZ2CSCH63
NSF Program(s):	CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
Primary Program Source:	app-0105
Program Reference Code(s):	7231, 9215, HPCC
Program Element Code(s):	723100
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.050

ABSTRACT

The project is a planning effort designed to develop a detailed analysis of the high-end computing requirements of geoscience research challenges and to share information on the implications, for geoscience research, of architectural trends in high-end computing system design. Through tele-conferences, workshops and outreach at professional meetings, the project will bring together geoscience modelers, computational scientists, and architecture experts from major high-end system and processor vendors. This planning effort is consistent with a recommendation for such an activity that emerged from a recent study, by members of the geoscience research community, of the scientific need for, and technical feasibility of, a petascale computing collaboratory for geoscience research. The anticipated consequences of this effort are: (i) the development of technical requirements that will be useful to groups acquiring high-end computing systems for geoscience research, and (ii) a stronger focus within the computational geosciences community on matching algorithm design to computational architecture design, leading eventually to increases in the ability of the geosciences community to make effective use of high-end computational resources.

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