The federal Project Grant award of $524,998 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will enable Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to replace its 9-year old Fenn computing cluster with a new state-of-the-art high performance computing system. The new cluster will renew and expand CPU and memory capacity, add GPU computing, renew and expand the shared storage system, and upgrade network connectivity. This will support over 38...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $747,410 to the University of Pittsburgh to purchase a Dell PowerEdge XE9680 8X H100 NVIDIA GPU server with NV-Link. The server will be housed at the university's Center for Biologic Imaging (CBI), a centralized imaging facility that supports NIH-funded researchers across the campus and at other institutions. The high-performance computing capacity of the...
This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), will support the University of California, Los Angeles in developing a detailed plan for a high-performance GPU computing cluster to address computational needs in biomedical research. Specifically, the university will identify representative science use cases and users, determine standards for...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $400,000 to Brown University to acquire a new high-performance computing (HPC) resource focused on GPU-based computing. The goal is to create a centralized HPC cluster that will serve as a cornerstone for multidisciplinary brain science research and education programs at the university's Carney Institute for Brain Science. The new HPC resource will expand...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $450,173 to Seattle Children's Hospital (doing business as Seattle Children's Research Institute) to acquire a light-sheet microscopy system. The goal is to support biomedical research at Seattle Children's Research Institute, University of Washington, and other partner institutions in the Seattle area. The advanced microscopy system will enable...
This Project Grant award of $129,708 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) supports the development of advanced computational tools for analyzing single-cell data. The goal is to provide new methods for modeling and interpreting complex cellular processes like differentiation and disease progression, with a focus on applications in hematopoiesis, tissue regeneration, and large-scale perturbation studies....
This federal Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $5,149,107 to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, WA to conduct research on "Defining Human Correlates of Super-Evasive Disseminated Tumor Cells, Their Pathological Relevance and How to Eradicate Them." The award period runs from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2029. The research aims to transform healthcare for military service members,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $525,000 to the University of Vermont (UVM) to construct "ICECORE", a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster powered by 64 NVIDIA GPUs. The HPC cluster will significantly enhance computational research capacity in Northern New England, enabling research of national significance in areas such as machine learning...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) provides $1,999,794 to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to establish the AI Mount Sinai (AIMS) high-performance computational and data ecosystem. AIMS will provide state-of-the-art GPU capability and capacity to support 42 research projects at 26 institutions across areas such as AI for medical imaging, structural and...
This $397,299 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), will provide Fordham University with a high-performance GPU computing cluster to modernize its scientific computing infrastructure. The GPU cluster, consisting of three nodes with approximately 12 NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPU accelerators, will support multidisciplinary research and education across various fields, including computer science, neuroscience, security,...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington. The grant funding will be used to replace the center's aging high-performance computing (HPC) cluster with a new 130-node, 7,799-core, 192 TB RAM HPC system with 1,753,088 CUDA cores. This upgraded computational infrastructure will significantly enhance the center's capacity for GPU-accelerated artificial intelligence and machine learning methodologies to support a wide range of biomedical research, including cancer biology, infectious disease modeling, and genomic studies. The new HPC system will benefit over 38 NIH-funded research cohorts at the center working on projects such as vaccine development and large-scale integrative analytics.