KISTI NCSA Joint Laboratory Opening Ceremony

KISTI held opening ceremony for joint laboratory with NCSA(National Center for Supercomputing Application) on May 22nd at its head office located in Daejeon.

KISTI and NCSA are working as a national supercomputing center each in Korea and U.S. NCSA has developed Telnet for the 1st time in the world and is holding world top-class supercomputing research capabilities with Blue Water Supercomputer.

KISTI and NCSA will work together to develop core and future technologies for supercomputer by operating joint laboratory. Throught this, Korea is expected to secure world-class supercomputing technologies. The opening of this joint laboratory is the fruits of multiple cooperation that KISTI and NCSA have been working together since 2000.

They have concluded MoU‧MoA, and conducted research on e-Science research environment, hold joint workshop and etc. More specifically, KISTI and NCSA have developed KNSG(KISTI-NCSA Science Gateway) and proposed research on the prevention of disaster.