National Center for Computational Sciences

Oak Ridge Associated Universities will fund — and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory will provide the computing resources for — a series of high-performance computing grants for faculty and student teams.

As the lab reaches petascale computing on the order of 1,000 trillion calculations per second over the coming year, ORAU is positioning its university partners to take full advantage of these ultrascale computing resources for scientific discovery, a press release stated.

During the recent annual meeting of its Council of Sponsoring Institutions, ORAU announced it would partner with ORNL to provide funding for a competitive, high-performance computing grants program for faculty and student teams. The grants for each team will be $75,000 for three years, with two grants awarded per year.

In turn, the national laboratory will provide university researchers access to its computing facilities and staff, and potentially some additional discretionary resources, in order to galvanize a partnership for successful and mutually beneficial scientific research.

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