San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has introduced OnDemand, a new supercomputing resource that will support on-demand users for urgent science applications.

Urgent applications that will make use of OnDemand range from making movies of Southern California earthquakes to systems that will help give near real-time warnings based on predictions of the path of tornados or a hurricane, or foretell the most likely direction of a toxic plume released by an industrial accident or terrorist incident. The system has a nominal theoretical peak performance of 2.4 Tflops.