This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the operation and maintenance of the National Extreme Ultrafast Science (NEXUS) facility, a first-of-its-kind laser user facility that provides broad access to cutting-edge tools for studying ultrafast processes in molecules and materials. The $1,389,569 award over 5 years (10/1/2024 - 9/30/2029) enables NEXUS to serve as a focal point for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $6,999,998 Cooperative Agreement to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The project, titled "COSMOS: Democratizing the Accelerator Ecosystem for Science and Discovery," will establish a three-year testbed phase followed by a two-year allocations phase to enable researchers across multiple scientific domains to leverage advanced...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $292,237 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program grant to the University of Illinois for the project "A Framework to Power Next-Generation AI-Based Scientific Models on Hardware with Massive Parallelism." The 5-year project aims to address two key challenges in developing high-quality AI-based scientific models: (1) fully utilizing the compute power of modern hardware with massive parallelism, and (2) making...
This $500,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of the National Deep Inference Fabric (NDIF) at Northeastern University. The NDIF is a nationwide high-performance computing platform that will enable transparent and reproducible research on large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as large language models. Key components include: 1) a nationwide...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $101,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under CFDA 47.070 (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) to construct the Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF) project. The LCCF is an advanced distributed computing facility that will provide unique computing capabilities and software/services to enable transformative scientific discoveries in the largest and most computationally intensive research frontiers. The project, led by the Texas...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $295,548 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Illinois. The award will support the development of an "Intelligent Management of Hybrid Workloads for Extreme Scale Computing" framework. Key research activities include modeling the performance implications of diverse workloads on supercomputers, creating new intelligent multi-resource scheduling methods, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), awarded the University of Texas at Austin $3.5 million for the period of August 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024. This Cooperative Agreement will support final design planning activities for the Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF), envisioned as an advanced distributed leadership computing facility serving as a nexus for world-class computational capabilities....
This $299,968 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in enabling large-scale research projects on the NVIDIA DGX cloud platform. The award aims to assist NAIRR pilot researchers with onboarding, porting workflows, user management, cluster management, software installation, profiling, performance tuning, and data movement...
This $613,062 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a research infrastructure project at Georgia State University to enhance high-performance computing resources. The project, titled "Pioneering Research-Oriented Flexible Cyberinfrastructure (PROFLEX-CI)", will acquire 12 H100 GPUs, 682 CPU cores, and 228TB of storage to support 11 diverse research projects spanning areas...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $157,203 Project Grant to the University of Arizona under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct research related to scaling general-purpose processors into the exascale era. Specifically, the award will fund research to design reconfigurable aggregated virtual chips utilizing heterogeneous aggregated chiplets and a hybrid wireless interconnection network. This is intended to enable systems...