Next year, scientists at UC Davis and 36 other leading academic Next year, scientists at UC Davis and 36 other leading academic problems from their offices, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation. The five-year award to the UC San Diego-based coalition is approximately $170 million. UC Davis' share of the award is estimated at $1.75 million for the next five years. Although the highest performance computers will be located in San Diego, high-performance machines and large data storage caches will be located at a number of universities in the coalition, including UC Davis. Scientists will use the new computing system to work on astronomical, biological and environmental problems that involve huge sets of data that need to be stored, accessed and analyzed. "The next generation of supercomputing is centered more on science than on bits and bytes," says UC Davis project leader David Rocke, management professor and co-director of the UC Davis Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing. "The cool thing is all the exciting new things you can find out about the world." Additional news about the partnership can be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/pr9727.htm and http://www-cacse.ucsd.edu/.