NSF initiatives in higher education: high-end computing
John W. D. Connolly · ACM SIGUCCS Newsletter · 1988
I am going to describe a few NSF activities which in some ways may make your life easier and in some ways may make your life a little more complicated. Our new NSF national supercomputing facility is, in a way, very complementary to the kinds of responsibilities that you have in a local computing facility. I like to think that we are offering a top-of-the-line scientific computing resource. Your faculty who will require top-of-the-line scientific computing will be using our centers, rather than your resources. Every computing center director knows physicists who want to use the whole machine and then cry for more. These people are the ones that we welcome at the national facility.