XSEDE Resource Provider
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee is a product of a $65M Track 2B award by the National Science Foundation. The mission of NICS is to enable the scientific discoveries of researchers nationwide by providing leading- edge computational resources and education, outreach and training for under-represented groups.
System
NICS has established a major new petascale computing environment fully integrated with XSEDE with access to a 1,030-teraflops Cray XT5 system. The system, called Kraken, contains 18,816 compute sockets, 147 terabytes of memory, and 3.3 petabytes of raw disk space. The XT5 system delivers in excess of 700 million CPU hours per year to XSEDE.
Kraken is located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the world's most powerful computing complex.
