XSEDE allocations open now for April 1 Awards

By Dina Meek, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Delta is powered by next-generation processor architectures and NVIDIA graphics processors, with forward-looking user interfaces and file systems.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign is accepting applications for allocations on its latest supercomputer, Delta. Though the application deadline closes January 15, another month-long application period opens March 1. 

NCSA's newest advanced research-computing and data resource is set to launch in just a few weeks. With over 800 GPUs, Delta is the most performant GPU resource in the National Science Foundation portfolio, and will largely be allocated through XSEDE. 

"Everyone at NCSA is excited to get Delta up and operational for the NSF community. It is a very forward-looking system in a number of different ways, such as the focus on science gateways support, improved accessibility, the relaxed-POSIX file system we have planned, and of course the massive amount of GPU computing performance this system will add to the XSEDE allocations pool." – Timothy Boerner, Deputy Project Director for both the XSEDE and Delta projects

Read the full NCSA release for more information on Delta.

Delta is funded in part by NSF award OCI 2005572.

At A Glance

• Delta blends cutting-edge GPU and traditional CPU architectures

• Offering over 800 GPUs makes Delta NSF's most performant GPU resource

• Delta will be largely allocated via XSEDE's quarterly periods