Magnificent improvements on computation power, memory and data transfer technologies made the computational scienses and engineering revolutionary grow. In most application domains, high grade results could be achieved by using only computation. A few of the research fields are using computation are climate researchs, earth science, nano-technologies, computational chemistry, high energy physics, computational fluid mechanics, life sciences etc.

The main goals of the National Center for High Performance Computing are to build awareness regarding to computational sciences and engineering in Turkey and to make ready a computational infra-structure for scientific researches and R&D services.

National Center for High Performance Computing Project started in 2004 with the support of DPT [Devlet Planlama Teşkilatı(Prime Ministry State Planning Organization)].

Three different user groups are targeted in our HPC Center:

● Scientific researchers that are made in universities and public sector's research departments,
● R&D departments of industrial companies that need computational resources for their services,
● The projects of international research and application.

In November 2006, the first phase of the server system is deployed in its temporary location in Istanbul Technical University Ayazaga Campus. Deployment process is finished in January 2007 and it was opened for users.

The second phase of the server system, disk and tape based storage system and virtual reality laboratuaries will be in use after the permanent building is finished.