TeraGrid Planning Process Report: August 2007 User Workshops

Abstract

TeraGrid is a national, distributed infrastructure integrating multiple resources at nine resource provider facilities. In late spring 2007, the NSF awarded a grant to the University of Michigan’s School of Information (UM-SI) to facilitate a participatory planning process to help guide the future evolution of TeraGrid. To gain an understanding of the requirements of current and potential future users of TeraGrid, UM-SI conducted a series of three workshops. Two of these workshops focused on the needs of TeraGrid and high-performance computing users in ten research domains (astronomy, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and physics for Workshop A; biology and other biosciences, chemistry, earth and environmental science, materials science, the social sciences, and humanities for Workshop B). Thirty-five people participated in the two events. This report summarizes the results of the workshops.