A user friendly discussion of supercomputing and some associated application areas from the National Partnership for an Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) site. A description of the National Technology grid is available at http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/CoverStories/WhatisGrid/

This National Science Foundation (NSF) program supports two programs: the Alliance, led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and, the National Partnership for an Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California at San Diego. The Alliance and NPACI have been charged with building the National Technology Infrastructure for the twenty-first century. The two programs have created a combined organization for Education, Outreach and Training (EOT) to help disseminate technologies to K-12, graduate and undergraduate students, and government.

The two partnerships have created a combined organization for Education, Outreach and Training (EOT) to help disseminate technologies to graduate, undergraduate, K-12, and government.