The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)

June 8, 2013

XSEDE is the computational infrastructure for iPlant
(http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/).

iPlant is a bit like Galaxy — it’s supposed to be a user-friendly interface on top of the raw hardware.
http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/discover/discovery-environment

iPlant is NSF’s version of DOE’s kbase; they literally have identical goals.

https://www.xsede.org/web/guest/overview
https://www.xsede.org/web/guest/using-xsede
https://www.xsede.org/tacc-stampede

400G per user (multiple users allowed),100k CPU hours for start up.

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