Grants and Contracts

($11.7 million is awarded in total, out of which my share is $1.6M)

​Research Grants​

  • ​National Science Foundation

    • Title: Collaborative Research: Elements: ROCCI: Integrated Cyberinfrastructure for In Situ Lossy Compression Optimization Based on Post Hoc Analysis Requirements (OAC-2104024)

    • Amount: $280K

    • Period: 9/15/2021 through 8/31/2024

    • Role: Single PI

  • UChicago Argonne, LLC

    • Title: FAIR Surrogate Benchmarks Supporting AI and Simulation Research

    • Amount: $24K

    • Period: 8/15/2021 through 12/31/2021

    • Role: Single PI

  • UChicago Argonne, LLC

    • Title: Exploring Multiresolution Based Compression for Extreme-Scale Scientific Applications

    • Amount: $74K

    • Period: 1/1/2021 through 12/31/2021

    • Role: Single PI

  • AMD, Inc.

    • Title: CPU Inference of Sparse DNN Models on AMD EPYC

    • Amount: $30K

    • Period: 1/1/2021 through 12/31/2021

    • Role: Single PI

  • ​National Science Foundation

    • Title: CDS&E: Collaborative Research: HyLoC: Objective-driven Adaptive Hybrid Lossy Compression Framework for Extreme-Scale Scientific Applications (OAC-2003624/2042084, OAC-2003709)

    • Amount: $530K (share: $270K)

    • Period: 8/1/2020 through 7/31/2023

    • Role: Lead PI

  • UChicago Argonne, LLC

    • Title: Improving GPU Version of SZ for Scientific Applications at Extreme Scale

    • Amount: $113K

    • Period: 5/1/2020 through 12/31/2021

    • Role: Single PI

  • National Science Foundation

    • Title: CRII: OAC: An Efficient Lossy Compression Framework for Reducing Memory Footprint for Extreme-Scale Deep Learning on GPU-Based HPC Systems (OAC-1948447/2034169)

    • Amount: $175K + $15K (supplement)

    • Period: 5/1/2020 through 4/30/2022

    • Role: Single PI

  • National Science Foundation

    • Title: CC* Compute: Accelerating Advances in Science and Engineering at The University of Alabama Through HPC Infrastructure (OAC-2018846)

    • Amount: $400K (share: $100K)

    • Period: 7/1/2020 through 6/30/2022

    • Role: co-PI (PI: Jeff Carver)​​

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    • Title: CISESS: Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies

    • Amount: $5.5M (share: $250K)

    • Period: 6/1/2020 through 5/31/2021

    • Role: co-PI (PI: Prasad Gogineni)

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    • Title: Center for Remote Sensing of Snow and Soil Moisture

    • Amount: $5M (share: $250K)

    • Period: 6/1/2019 through 5/31/2020

    • Role: co-PI (PI: Prasad Gogineni)

  • UChicago Argonne, LLC

    • Title: Improving Lossy Compression for Scientific Applications at Extreme Scale

    • Amount: $25K

    • Period: 8/1/2019 through 12/31/2019

    • Role: Single PI​

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Industry Donations

  • Xilinx, Inc.

    • 2021: 1x Alveo U50 Data Center Accelerator Card  (estimated value: $2,500)

    • 2020: 1x Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA VCU118 Evaluation Kit (estimated value: $7,000​)

    • ​​2019: 1x Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC ZC706 Evaluation Kit + 2x Xilinx Zynq-7000 (estimated value: $4,000​)​

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Computing Resources

  • Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)​

    • 6500 GPU hours + 2 TB storage at PSC Bridges2 system (5/1/2020 through 4/30/2022)

  • Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)​

    • 9000 SUs at Frontera system (4/1/2020 through 3/31/2021)​

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​Travel Grants

  • 11/2018 Faculty Travel Grant $1,000 for SRP 2018, Lawerence Berkeley Lab.

  • 08/2018 New Faculty Start-Up Grant $245,000, The University of Alabama.

  • 06/2018 Student Travel Grant $1,400, ACM HPDC.

  • 11/2017 Student Travel Grant $1,500, ACM/IEEE SC.

  • 06/2017 Student Travel Grant $250, IEEE IPDPS.

  • 06/2016 Student Travel Grant $1,000, ACM HPDC.

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Acknowledgements

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