NSF Launches TeraGrid for Academic Research
Jeffrey D. Mervis · Science · 2001
Promising benefits to researchers working on everything from drug discovery to climate forecasting, the National Science Foundation (NSF) last week launched what will be the nation's most powerful network for scientific computing. NSF has pledged $53 million to four U.S. research institutions and their commercial partners to build and operate a system expected to be up and running by 2003. Its official name is the Distributed Terascale Facility, taken from its targeted capacity to perform trillions of floating-point operations per second (teraflops) and store hundreds of terabytes of data. But if it's a success, it may go down in history as Internet 3.