NCSC - North Carolina Supercomputing Center _A_d_d_r_e_s_s: North Carolina Supercomputing Center P.O. Box 12889 - 3021 Cornwallis Road Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 _E_m_a_i_l: info@flyer.ncsc.org _P_h_o_n_e: (919) 248-1100 FAX: (919) 248-1101 _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n The mission of the North Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC) is to promote the growth of computational science, education, and research in North Carolina institutions and to foster the economic development of North Carolina through high-performance computing and its applications. The pri- mary focus of NCSC is to promote economic growth, computa- tional science and education in North Carolina through cooperative agreements with industry and research collabora- tions with academic institutions at all levels. NCSC is a division of MCNC, a non-profit company. NCSC offers high- performance computing on the following platforms: Cray YMP8/464 128 MWords SSD 62 GBytes of disk storage Convex C220 128 MBytes of memory 10 GBytes of disk storage An IBM 3090-180J provides mass storage services for the Center using Unitree. The Center's computers are connected via a high-speed UltraNet network. The NCSC visualization lab includes a Silicon Graphics 4D/280 GTX with stereo display, UltraNet network interface, eight processors, 128 megabytes of memory and three giga- bytes of disk storage; a Silicon Graphics 320 VGX-Turbo with _________________________ The information in this section is provided in accor- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front of this guide. August 12, 1992 NNSC Section 1.16, Page 1 32 megabytes of memory and 8 gigabytes of disk storage; a Sun 4/490 with 64 megabytes of memory and 7.3 gigabytes of disk storage; a DECStation 5000/200 PXG-Turbo with 96 mega- bytes of memory and 850 megabytes of disk storage; and a Stardent Titan 3040 P3 G3 with four processors, 64 megabytes of memory and 2 gigabytes of disk storage. The lab also includes a NeXT computer with color monitor, a Macintosh IIci with color monitor, a Kodak XL7700 color printer, an optical scanner, a film recorder, two commercial-grade com- ponent video recorders, a video digitizer, a scan converter and a digital frame store, and a multi-format video tran- scoder. NCSC was chosen as the site of the International AVS Center in 1991. Two of the International AVS Center's goals are to broaden the user base and the functionality of Application Visualization System, the current "de facto" standard visu- alization environment, and to be vender-neutral. The Inter- national AVS Center plans to reach this goal by fostering discipline-specific AVS module development and developing new uses for AVS. The International AVS Center collects, ports and distributes user-contributed public domain AVS modules and serves as a liason between AVS users and ven- dors. The International AVS center manages an International AVS Users Group to work with users from around the world to form local user groups. NCSC provides user support through e-mail and telephone con- tacts; it also provides training courses on a wide variety of supercomputing topics. NCSC has a complete training facility with lecture facilities, video taping capability, and a hands-on training laboratory populated with 16 works- tations. NCSC is a partner in the VISTAnet project, a com- ponent of the NREN project sponsored by the National Science Foundation. NCSC is installing a HIPPI based internal net- work for high-speed visualization and mass storage services. The Research Institute within NCSC pro- motes interdisci- plinary and computational approaches to challenging problems through collaboration with industrial and academic partners. _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s NCSC is a member of CONCERT, a state-wide network with bandwidth up to T3, operated by MCNC's Communications Divi- sion (see section 5.23 of the Internet Resource Guide). CONCERT accesses the Internet through SURAnet (see section 5.17 of the Guide). A state-wide two-way video and voice conferencing network, also operated by MCNC's Communications August 12, 1992 NNSC Section 1.16, Page 2 Division, connects NCSC with universities across the state for collaboration and training. The network address of the NCSC Cray is "flyer.ncsc.org". The mail server is "ncsc.ncsc.org". _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _T_h_e _C_e_n_t_e_r Academic resources are allocated on a peer-review basis to researchers affiliated with North Carolina's education sys- tem at no cost to the researchers. Resources for industrial affiliates are granted according to individual cooperative agreements. _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s Executive Director Lawrence Lee, Executive Director (larrylee@ncsc.org). (919) 248-1149 Deputy Director Jeff Huskamp, Deputy Director (huskamp@ncsc.org) (919) 248-1164 Education/Outreach Curt Edge, Outreach Project Manager (edge@ncsc.org) (919) 248-1148 Industry Partnerships Bill Coe, Director of Industry Partnerships (coe@ncsc.org). (919) 248-1166 Operations Rob Silvia, Manager of Operations (rjs@ncsc.org) (919) 248-1132 Peer Review Allocations Bruce Loftis, Research Staff (bruce@ncsc.org). (919) 248-1124 Research Collaborations Ken Flurchick, Research Staff (kenf@ncsc.org). (919) 248-1121 Scientific Support Jeff Huskamp, Acting Manager of Scientific Support (huskamp@ncsc.org) (919) 248-1164 August 12, 1992 NNSC Section 1.16, Page 3 Technology Nathan Hillery, Manager of Operations (hillery@ncsc.org) (919) 248-1106 _R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s NCSC forms, documents, CONCERT training material, utility programs and more are available through anonymous ftp. The anonymous ftp account is located on the Convex C220 at NCSC. The IP address is 128.109.178.1 or cardinal.ncsc.org. After you ftp to the server, enter the account name anonymous. You are then prompted for a password or identification name. At this prompt, you should enter your e-mail address. When you type in your e-mail address at this prompt, it will not be echoed on the screen. Once you are logged into the anonymous account, a limited set of UNIX commands are avail- able, such as ls, cd, help, and get. For additional information and instructions on using the account, see the pub/README.ftp file or enter man ftp at the system prompt to see the man page. Copy this file to your directory on the machine where you initiated the ftp ses- sion. Type quit to log out of the ftp session. August 12, 1992 NNSC Section 1.16, Page 4