NCSA's Allocations Staff coordinated the 1996
MetaCenter Allocations Program and hosted the 1996
MetaCenter Allocations Committee (MAC) meeting on
March 1, 1996, at the National Science Foundation
(NSF) in Arlington, VA. The MAC is a joint panel
drawn from the review boards of the NSF-funded high-
performance computer centers (CTC, NCSA, PSC, and
SDSC). Reviewers and allocations staff from all four
centers and from NSF attended the meeting. Paul
Young, Bob Borchers, Dick Kaplan, Mel Ciment, and
Rich Hirsh from the CISE Directorate at NSF also
attended.
Following the meeting, Borchers, director of the Division of Advanced Scientific Computing at NSF, commented in an email to Radha Nandkumar, NCSA Allocations team leader, "I was very impressed at the level of organization and commitment for the meeting. It bodes very well for the continuation of the program through the partnerships program. It is particularly gratifying to see the quality of science and engineering demonstrated in the competition and the dedication of the reviewers in seeing that the best [researchers] get the needed resources to do their work."
The MetaCenter Allocations Program facilitates a single mechanism by which researchers may request resources on any combination of vector and/or scalable parallel platforms at any of the centers. The committee reviewed 72 proposals with requests for resources on 10 different platforms at the four centers. The following table summarizes the list of principal investigators who were recipients of the 1996 MAC awards effective from April 1, 1996, to March 31, 1997.
A list of those researchers receiving awards is available online.
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