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On March 26th, Dr. James D. Myers, Cyberenvironments and Technologies Directorate leader of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was invited to Computer Network Information Center(CNIC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences. At 9 o’clock AM, a lecture on data services addressed by Dr. James held in CNIC’s conference hall, hosted by Dr. Shaowen Wang, researcher-in-residence of CNIC. Prof. Xiangyang Huang, director of CNIC, first addressed a speech to Dr. James to express his warm welcome. Almost eighty technicians and graduated students from seven operating divisions of CNIC attended the lecture.
After the Lecture, accompanied by technicians, Dr. James paid a visit to CNIC’s machinery room. In the afternoon, the Science& Technology department of CNIC had a meeting in 508 meeting hall, hosted by Director Huang, attended by related divisions including Supercomputing Center, Scientific Data Center and S& T department. During the meeting, During the meeting, Dr. Huang introduced the outline and the new progress on cyberenvironment of CNIC, which will establish a stage for CNIC’s international cooperation, especially the cooperation between CNIC and NCSA. Also, Some details are discussed in depth on two sides’ future cooperation and collaboration plans.
NCSA—established in 1986 as one of the original sites of the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program—is supported by the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation, and grants from other federal agencies. The center is part of the Illinois Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies.For more than 20 years, NCSA has been a leader in deploying robust high-performance computing resources and in working with research communities to develop new computing and software technologies. Building on this history of leadership, NCSA and its partners are at work on the Blue Waters project, which will provide the national research community with a sustained-petaflop supercomputer that is many times more powerful than the current resources available for non-classified scientific research.
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