"This project," said Sergiu Sanielevici, PSC director of scientific applications and user support, who also leads user support and services for the TeraGrid, "exemplifies how powerful systems like Pople can open doors to data-mining and data-centric research in fields not traditionally associated with HPC, such as the social sciences, and make it possible to get answers that would otherwise be impractical or impossible." PSC supported this project through the NSF TeraGrid program, which allocates large-scale computing resources free to researchers at U.S. universities on a peer-review proposal basis.