- The MetaNEOS project is funded by the NSF Challenges in Computational Science initiative, grant number CDA-9726385.
- We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the Department of
Energy, which supports some of our activities at Argonne National
Laboratory under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38.
The solution of nug30 would not have been possible without the collaboration
and interaction with many different people and institutions.
First and foremost, we would like to warmly thank the entire Condor Team at
University of Wisconsin. Our collaboration has been a synergetic one,
and their research effort to improve our computing
infrastructure was no less important in tackling nuug30 than the
algorithm itself.
In particular, from the Condor team, we wish to thank :
- Miron Livny - For his tireless enthusiasm
- Michael Yoder - For laying the groundwork to MW
- Sanjeev Kulkarni - For writing the MW-File communication
interface, and for putting up with Jeff's 20 emails per day
- Todd Tannenbaum - For dealing with our many inane queries about
Personal Condor
- Jaime Frey - For making Condor glide-in such an easy and useful tool
Many thanks also go to Stu Martin of the Globus Team for his help in using
the Globus tools to add machines to our computational pool and to
Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke for their support on the nug30 challenge.
We would also like to thank the following institutions who donated
their resources for the nug30 computation.
- The University of Wisconsin
- Argonne National Laboratory - Thanks to Chiba
City administrators JP Navarro, Dan Nurmi, and Remy Evard and to
Origin 2000 administrator Sandra Bittner
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Interactive High
Performance Computing Laboratory - Thanks to Matt Wolf,
Karsten Schwan, and Neil Bright.
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) : Thanks to Jim Basney for making the Condor pool
available and to the Alliance for granting our resource request
- Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center -
Computing time here was available thanks to an Alliance resource grant
- Northwestern University : Johnathan Gaetz and Bob
Fourer.
- Columbia University : Stefan Schmieta and Dan Bienstock
