






                    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
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            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
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            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



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            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.



























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