August 9, 2001:  NSF
Awarded $53,000,000
to SDSC/NPACI
and NCSA/Alliance
for TeraGrid
TeraGrid will
provide in
aggregate
13.6 trillion calculations per second
Over 600 trillion bytes of immediately accessible data
40 gigabit per second network speed
Provide a new paradigm for data-oriented computing
Critical for disaster response, genomics, environmental modeling, etc.