NNIN Computation
ProjectThe
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Computation Project (NNIN/C) is
a multi-university initiative, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF),
to establish a national computing resource that is open to the academic and
industrial research community and which provides hardware resources and
simulation tools dedicated to nanoscience research. The software tools include
commercial software packages for design, characterization and analysis of
nanometer scale devices as well as some of the latest academic advances in
nanoscale modeling and simulation software. Among the goals and strategies of
NNIN/C are:
Assemble and create a wide suite of robust software that addresses critical
issues in the molecular and electronic structure and physical and chemical
dynamics of artificial and natural nanoscale structures.
Maintain and, where necessary, modify these simulations to address a widening scope of research
problems.
Provide strong technical support and thorough instruction on the software tools so as
to permit even novice users to progress rapidly to the solutions of their own
unique research problems.
Provide web-based graphical
user interfaces (GUIs) for user-friendly access to simulation tools as well
as web-based resources for instruction and feedback to the community of
researchers employing the same tools.
