Project Grant 2346636

This $498,553 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The grant funding will support UC Riverside's transformative project to revitalize its research storage infrastructure with a state-of-the-art Ceph-based storage solution. This integrated system will provide 460TB of high-performance, scalable storage to empower diverse research endeavors across the university, including areas such as deep learning, metabolomics, air quality studies, agriculture, and neurocognitive imaging. The enhanced storage capabilities will advance UC Riverside's research productivity and position the university as a leader in inclusive, cutting-edge research, particularly as it recently joined the prestigious Association of American Universities. No sub-awards are planned under this grant, which has an award date of March 15, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of February 28, 2026.