Grants and Contracts
($12.8 million is awarded in total, out of which my share is $2.97M)
Research Grants
National Science Foundation
Title: CAREER: A Highly Effective, Usable, Performant, Scalable Data Reduction Framework for HPC Systems and Applications (OAC-2232120)
Amount: $470K
Period: 1/11/2023 through 12/31/2027
Role: Single PI
Collaborators: Chirag Shah @ UW, Martin Burtscher @ Texas State U., Samuel Li @ NCAR, Zarija Lukić, Dan Martin, Suren Byna @ LBNL, Sheng Di, Yanfei Guo @ ANL, Ang Li @ PNNL
Meta Research
Title: Accelerating Communication in DLRM via Frequency-aware Lossy Compression
Amount: $50K
Period: 9/01/2022 through 8/31/2023
Role: Lead PI
Collaborators: Tong Geng @ U. Rochester
National Science Foundation
Title: Collaborative Research: OAC Core: CEAPA: A Systematic Approach to Minimize Compression Error Propagation in HPC Applications (OAC-2211539)
Amount: $250K
Period: 8/15/2022 through 7/31/2025
Role: Site PI
Collaborators: Guanpeng Li (Lead PI) @ UIowa, Sheng Di @ ANL, Zarija Lukic @ LBNL, Shaomeng Li @ NCAR
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: Site PI
Collaborators: Sheng Di (Lead PI), Franck Cappello (Co-PI) @ UChicago, Junjing Deng @ ANL, Zarija Lukic, Suren Byna @ LBNL
UChicago Argonne
Title: FAIR Surrogate Benchmarks Supporting AI and Simulation Research
Amount: $61K
Period: 8/15/2021 through 12/31/2021
Role: Site PI
Collaborators: Pete Beckman (PI), Xiaodong Yu @ ANL
UChicago Argonne
Title: Exploring Multiresolution Based Compression for Extreme-Scale Scientific Applications
Amount: $150K
Period: 1/1/2021 through 12/31/2022
Role: Site PI
Collaborators: Franck Cappello (PI), Sheng Di
AMD
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
Collaborators: Sheng Di @ UChicago, Junjing Deng @ ANL, Zarija Lukic @ LBNL
UChicago Argonne
Title: Improving GPU Version of SZ for Scientific Applications at Extreme Scale
Amount: $189K
Period: 5/1/2020 through 12/31/2022
Role: Site PI
Collaborators: Sheng Di (PI), Xiaodong Yu @ ANL
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: $190K
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 (my share: $100K)
Period: 7/1/2020 through 6/30/2022
Role: Co-PI
Collaborators: Jeff Carver (PI), Xiaoyan Hong (Co-PI), David Dixon (Co-PI) @UAlabama
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
Collaborators: Prasad Gogineni (PI), Stephen Yan (Co-PI), Drew Taylor (Co-PI), Zhe Jiang (Co-PI) @ UAlabama
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
Collaborators: Prasad Gogineni (PI), Stephen Yan (Co-PI), Drew Taylor (Co-PI), Zhe Jiang (Co-PI) @ UAlabama
UChicago Argonne
Title: Improving Lossy Compression for Scientific Applications at Extreme Scale
Amount: $25K
Period: 8/1/2019 through 12/31/2019
Role: Single PI
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)
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)
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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