The University of Pittsburgh was awarded a $844,205 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NCS-FR: VOLITIONAL CONTROL OF INTERNAL COGNITIVE STATES" from September 2021 through August 2026. The research aims to advance the development and use of cyberinfrastructure to accelerate discovery and innovation in computing,...
The University of Pittsburgh received a $400,001 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems on October 1, 2021 to support research activities through September 30, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research on in-memory processing enhanced by laterally accessing racetrack inspired cores under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This program supports investigator-initiated research and education...
This $1.2 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at the University of Pittsburgh to expedite machine learning applications on multi-GPU infrastructure. Specifically, the university will uncover and address architectural bottlenecks in deep neural network executions on multi-GPU systems. Researchers will redesign translation lookaside buffer hierarchies and page table walks to reduce address...
The University of Pittsburgh is the recipient of a $420,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The goal of this 3-year project is to advance the state-of-the-art in modeling and computation of multiphysics systems that model the physical interactions between two or more media, such as fluid flows, porous media, and elastic structures. The project consists of developing new mathematical models, designing stable...
The University of Pittsburgh will receive $540,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct investigations in high energy physics from September 2021 through August 2024. As part of the three-year project grant award, the University will investigate major problems confronting the nation through advancing the progress of mathematical and physical sciences and increasing the store of scientific knowledge and understanding in...
The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) received a $294,361 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program. The grant aims to strengthen UCCS's cyberinfrastructure and computational resources to support a range of research activities, including work in areas such as magnetic dynamics, animal biomechanics, quantum mechanics, genomics, and computational fluid dynamics. The project will establish a...
The University of Pittsburgh received a $194,087 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support collaborative research to realize joint detection receivers for quantum-enhanced optical communications using photonic NISQ-era quantum processors. Specifically, the University of Pittsburgh will work with partners to...
The University of Pittsburgh received a $299,652 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support a collaboration between multiple school districts to develop justice-focused computational thinking pathways for middle school English language arts from September 2021 to February 2023. The University of Pittsburgh, located in Pittsburgh,...
The University of Pittsburgh received a $316,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: SMALL: TOWARDS UNSUPERVISED LEARNING ON RESOURCE CONSTRAINED EDGE DEVICES WITH NOVEL STATISTICAL CONTRASTIVE LEARNING SCHEME." The three-year award, issued on October 1, 2021 with a completion date of September 30, 2024, will fund research into unsupervised learning techniques...
The University Corporation was awarded a $455,237 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund the acquisition of a GPU/CPU computing cluster for research and education in computational chemistry and materials from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research and...
The University of Pittsburgh received a three-year, $1.2 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund the acquisition of new GPU and MPI nodes to enhance the Interdisciplinary Pitt Center for Research Computing. The Center supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. The new high-performance computing resources will advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure, enabling and accelerating discovery and innovation by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh.