​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​

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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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