Originally equipped in 1993 with 9 Silicon Graphics workstations and a server through funding from an ONR DURIP grant (with contributions from DOE and NSF), the laboratory was upgraded in 1998 by a second DURIP grant with the addition of 2 Silicon Graphics Octane/SSI dual processor workstations, 3 SGI O2's and an SGI multiprocessor server with a 110 GB Storage Rack.
Additional computing resources include a 56 node Intel Paragon for development of numerical algorithms and research into enabling technologies on parallel platforms. This machine, which was awarded by DOE and Intel (with a contribution from USC) to support the PICS project, has been consolidated with a 28 node Intel Paragon at Texas A\&M University through a Collaborative Agreement with the Institute for Scientific Computation. The combined resource is available for parallel code development by Institute personnel through a recently awarded highspeed vBNS connection.
