Alliance Partners Share in Recently Awarded Grants

NSF-Funded Effort to Integrate Science Tools Into Classrooms
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1.5 million, three-year grant to NCSA and to Alliance partners at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and Birmingham. The project will support annual teaching fellowships for graduate students in the science, math, engineering, and technology (SMET) disciplines at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Alabama. The fellowships begin in the fall 2001 semester. Eric Jakobsson, senior research scientist at NCSA, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, and head of the UI bioengineering program, is co-principal investigator for the project with Richard Braatz, an NCSA senior research scientist and associate professor of chemical engineering. Umesh Thakkar, an NCSA research scientist, is project director.

DoD Effort Provides Programming Environment and Training Support
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a $108 million contract to provide Programming Environment and Training (PET) support in its High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). Contract work began June 1. Leading the consortium of thirteen academic institutions and two industrial partners is Joe Thompson, distinguished professor of aerospace engineering at Mississippi State University. Co-principal investigators are Charlie Bender, executive director of Ohio Supercomputer Center, and Jay Boisseau, former associate director of San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and current director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at University of Texas at Austin. Other consortium members are The Ohio State University, NCSA, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Central State University, Jackson State University, Clark Atlanta University, Florida International University, Florida State University, the University of Hawaii, Science Applications International Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation.

Air Force Research Lab Funds Operations of Maui Supercomputing Center
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the University of Hawaii (UH) the contract to operate and manage the Maui Supercomputing Center, which is currently known as the Maui High Performance Computing Center, effective October 1. The phase-in process begins July 1. The UH team also includes Boeing Rocketdyne Technical Services, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the Ohio Supercomputer Center, New Mexico Tech, and Textron.