KISTI/Supercomputing Center
KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) will establish the knowledge information infrastructure in 21century. KISTI passed the Industrialization Age of the 20th century and have arrived in the era where knowledge and information will be essential to our country's international competitiveness.While it was the material goods that enabled us to accumulate wealth in the past, it is now the knowledge which can bring us the wealth as well as the competitiveness to survive in this fast changing world. Therefore, how we build the infrastructure for knowledge and information in science and technology will determine the coordinates of our country's future.
KISTI, which was assigned to play the pivotal role in establishing the national science and technology knowledge information infrastructure has been founded through the merger of Korea Institute of Industry and Technology Information (KINITI) and Korea Research and Development Information Center (KORDIC) in January, 2001.
KISTI is under the supervision of the Office of the Prime Minister and will lead the knowledge based society of 21century.
KISTI will play a leading role in building the nationwide infrastructure for knowledge and information by linking the high-performance research network with its supercomputers. It will become the uppermost important institution upon which the next generation technologies (BT, IT, ET, NT, CT, ST) will grow.
Especially, in response to the rapidly changing demands for knowledge and information, KISTI will collect useful information about the world-wide trends of science and technology with great speed, and will work out to provide the most precise analysis of information. Thus, KISTI will be placed in the center for the construction of the National Science and Technology Innovation System. KISTI will prepare the future with the firm basis for the information knowledge on science and technology.
The KISTI Supercomputing Center is the largest provider of supercomputing resources and high performance networks in Korea. Its missions are (1) to advance the national information infrastructure by providing leading-edge computational resources and networks, (2) to advance computational science and computational techniques, and (3) to assist scientific communities and industry in exploiting the computational resources for the growth of their competitiveness worldwide.
The KISTI Supercomputing Center began as the computer laboratory of KIST in 1967 and, first of all, became a provider of supercomputers in 1988. Over the decades, the Center has grown to provide high-end technologies in Supercomputing and networking, along with active support and services, to the various groups of research communities of academia, industry, research institutes, and governmental and scientific organizations.
The Center also collaborates and builds partnerships with various other scientific communities both nationwide and worldwide. The overall goal of these efforts is to foster state-of-the-art research and overcome scientific challenges on the basis of the most innovative and leading technologies, which would ensure the nation's global competitiveness.
