The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a $12-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to deploy Comet, a new petascale supercomputer designed to transform advanced scientific computing by expanding access and capacity among traditional as well as non-traditional research domains. Comet will join SDSC’s Gordon supercomputer as a key resource within XSEDE. It is expected that Comet will help meet the pent-up demand for computing on up to 1,024 cores, which accounts for 98% of current jobs among XSEDE users. While Comet will be able to support much larger jobs, its scheduling policies will be designed to provide fast turnaround for large numbers of smaller jobs. This new system is also scheduled for production in the early part of 2015.  To read further, please visit http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/nsf_awards_12_million_to_sdsc_to_deploy_comet_supercomputer.