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 $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 $500,000 National Science Foundation project grant under the Integrative Activities program will support the acquisition of a high-performance computing cluster at the College of Staten Island to enhance research and education. The computing resource will consist of two computing nodes with hybrid CPU and GPU architecture integrated with large-capacity storage. This cluster aims to enable novel computational techniques across disciplines like biology, computer science, engineering and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, provided under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), will enable Claremont McKenna College (CMC) and Harvey Mudd College (HMC) to acquire a $918,485 high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. The HPC cluster will support computational research and training across a diverse range of disciplines, including the natural sciences, mathematics, and economics. This multi-year project, with an award date of September 15, 2024 and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $659,979 project grant to the Regents of the University of California, Riverside under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to acquire a big data high-performance computing cluster. The computing cluster will enable novel interdisciplinary research, outreach, and training activities highly relevant to the environment and society. As a shared resource supporting research across colleges and departments, the cluster is expected to...
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...
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...
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,...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $300,000 to Ohio University to procure a university-wide computational cluster. The cluster will enable Ohio researchers to conduct a diverse range of computational research and analysis, including screening millions of chemical compounds for therapeutic potential, improving electric vehicle batteries, enhancing airplane navigation, automating...
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 ongoing NIH-funded projects, including 23 R01s, led by 21 major and minor users across research areas such as genetics, genomics, computational biology, cancer therapeutics, and more. The enhanced computational resources will accelerate research, reduce wet-lab costs, and shorten drug discovery timelines, while also enabling VCU to attract and retain new biomedical investigators. The award has an effective date of Jul 15, 2025 and an ultimate completion date of Jul 14, 2026.