GPNMission

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GPNgrid Mission Statement

Building a Test Bed Grid for Computing Across the Great Plains

GPNgrid Mission

The Great Plains Network (GPN) is dedicated to supporting scientific research and education through the use of advanced networking technology and high performance computing. The vision of GPN is to enhance competitiveness and economic benefit by providing leadership in advanced, high-performance applications and network technologies to enable the Great Plains region and its partners to lead in innovative learning/educational environments and collaborative research. The long-term goal of GPNgrid is to build a regional infrastructure for sharing computational resources across the region. To accomplish this vision, it is our aim to

• Partner to create a regional test bed.

• Interoperate clusters within and between campuses.

• Provide a testbed for educational use.

• Use the grid on emergent research problems.

• Create the potential for upward growth.