[November 21, 2009] Cornell, Purdue Win NSF Grant to Deploy Matlab on the TeraGrid Tweet Nov 20, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Cornell University announced that the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) in partnership with Purdue University has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award to deploy The MathWorks Matlab on the TeraGrid as an experimental computing resource. According to a release, the initiative will provide seamless parallel Matlab computational services running on Windows HPC Server 2008 to remote desktop and Science Gateway users with complex analytic and simulation requirements. Project supporters include Dell, Microsoft, and The MathWorks. "MATLAB on the TeraGrid will help enable a broader class of researchers who are well-versed in MATLAB to reduce the time to solution in a scalable manner without having to become parallel programming experts," said Cornell University's senior vice provost for research Robert Buhrman. "It will serve as a complementary experimental component to NSF's large-scale eXtreme Digital vision and TeraGrid Science Gateways, and be a valuable tool to researchers focused on solving complex problems in the environment, health care, and many other science and engineering disciplines," he added. "This project is designed to advance the understanding of how to best deploy a software utility as a transparent and responsive user service," said CAC director and principal investigator David Lifka. "It will demonstrate an important working model for high-performance utility computing, which may encourage other software vendors to explore and develop similar research capabilities." "MATLAB on the TeraGrid will be made available in its initial configuration as a 512-core experimental computing resource to researchers with TeraGrid certificates and through Science Gateways such as nanoHUB.org," said Gerhard Klimeck, director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University who is co-PI on the project along with Michael McLennan, a senior research scientist at Purdue. "nanoHUB users will benefit from this new TeraGrid resource through a transparent and instantaneous access for several applications," McLennan said. More Information: www.cac.cornell.edu/matlab www.cac.cornell.edu www.mathworks.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]