A strong emphasis on community involvement and governance has been critical to the success of NERSC and NCAR and is also central to plans for the future for both centers. NERSC and NCAR both support broad communities that are poised to make major breakthroughs in knowledge and understanding in very important scientific fields. Careful optimization of resources and capabilities will undoubtedly require continued attention and creativity as new computational systems develop and propagate. Both centers are ready to meet the challenge.
This work was supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC 03-76SF00098. NCAR is operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation.
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