| Project | National Education Supercomputer Program |
| Contact | Brian Lindow |
| Project description | The National Education Supercomputer Program provides a unique instructional tool for science and mathematics students in elementary, junior high school, high school, and community colleges throughout the United States. Teachers learnhow to bridge the gap between textbook concepts and actual applications by using high-performance computing tools similar to those used by scientists. The National Education Supercomputer (the NES) is a CRAY Y-MP EL provided to the National Education Supercomputer Program (NESP) by Cray Research, Inc. located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It is used exclusively for educational purposes. |
| Theoretical background | Derives from constructivist approaches to education. |
| Challenges | Issues of updating and finding new partners and simulations. |
| Partnership | Partners that can add simulation content and distribute the current simulations. |