USA National Organisations

• Advanced Projects Research Agency (ARPA) and the Computing Systems Technology Office (CSTO) research areas including interests in scalable computing (scalable and embedded), microsystems, scalable software (OSes, HPC environments and languages, libraries, ...) and NETS (high performance networking). [HPCC]
• Federal High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Program National Coordination Office. (Also available via gopher.)
• National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) including:
  • Earth And Space Science Applications Project containing a software and information exchange.
  • Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Division at NASA Ames.
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) [FRC, NCHPC] and divisions:
  • Atmospheric Technology Division (ATD)
  • Climate and Global Dynamic Division (CGD)
  • Scientific Computing Division (SCD)
• Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Research. DOE Laboratories and facilities:
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Computing Division
  • Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Pacific Northwest Laboratory
  • Sandia National Laboratory
  • Superconducting Super Collider
  • Two DOE High Performance Computing Research Centers (HPCRC) at LANL and ORNL CCS.
• National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
• National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) [FRC, NCHPC] including:
  • Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) at University of Colorado.
  • Space Environment Laboratory (SEL) at NIST, Boulder, Colorado providing near real-time monitoring and forecasting of the environment between the sun and the earth. It features current solar imager xray plots from GOES satellites, and forecasts of solar-terrestrial conditions.
• National Science Foundation (NSF)