The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), which is based at the University of California at San Diego (La Jolla, California), provides the National Science Foundation (NSF) and scientific, commercial, and academic organizations with computing infrastructure research and technology development services. The SDSC, founded in 1985 with a $170 million grant from the NSF's Supercomputer Centers program, conducts research on data management, grid computing, bioinformatics, geoinformatics, engineering, biology, and other subjects. The organization develops high-performance hardware and software technologies, portals, and workbenches. From 1997 to 2004, its National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) supported technology development collaborations with universities across the United States. It has produced biomolecular structure, molecular mechanics, quantum chemistry, structural analysis, fluid dynamics, linear algebra, data mining, and other software. Since its founding, the organization has served 10,000 researchers and 300 academic, commercial, and government institutions worldwide. The SDSC operates the 15.6 teraflop DataStar supercomputer, designed by IBM (R). It was organization was the first academic institution to implement an IBM BG/Le Server. The SDSC also hosts a 4.4 teraflop IA 64 Linux cluster. The organization manages 25 petabytes of archived and 1.4 petabytes of online data. It hosts data for the Protein Data Bank. The SDSC/Calit2 Synthesis Center promotes optimized, cross-platform commodity component computing. The SDSC includes the Grid Development, the Sciences Research and Development (SciRAD), and other groups, which provide scientists and engineers with cyberinfrastructure services. The organization also hosts workshops and manages community outreach programs.