NSF Org:	OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Initial Amendment Date:	August 30, 2022
Latest Amendment Date:	August 30, 2022
Award Number:	2232917
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Amy Apon awapon@nsf.gov  (703)292-5184 OAC  Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE  Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date:	January 1, 2023
End Date:	December 31, 2025 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$999,970.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$999,970.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2022 = $999,970.00
History of Investigator:	Carl Kesselman (Principal Investigator) carl@isi.edu Byoung-Do Kim (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of Southern California 3720 S FLOWER ST FL 3 LOS ANGELES CA  US  90033 (213)740-7762
Sponsor Congressional District:	34
Primary Place of Performance:	University of Southern California 3720 S FLOWER ST FL 3 LOS ANGELES CA  US  90007-4304
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	34
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	G88KLJR3KYT5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	Campus Cyberinfrastructure
Primary Program Source:	01002223DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):
Program Element Code(s):	808000
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.070

ABSTRACT

Educational institutions in Southern California, particularly those focused on undergraduate studies, face challenges in accessing essential high-performance computing (HPC) resources and cyber-infrastructure. This lack of accessibility leads to decreased knowledge and experience with HPC among students and faculty and inhibits advancements in data-intensive research activities. The University of Southern California?s (USC) Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) houses one of the largest HPC facilities in the region and is deploying new cyberinfrastructure to expand their services and expertise to under-resourced universities in the area. The implementation of this new HPC system with corresponding user support services further solidifies the existing collaboration between USC and the Los Nettos consortium, comprised of 6 member universities and 30 associate networks.

The new system offers a similar computing environment to national HPC centers with advanced computing capacity, high-speed network, and abundant research applications and tools in its software stack. Additionally, the system leverages existing cyberinfrastructure at USC such as central file systems, HPC cluster interconnection, and federated authentication. This project significantly increases the accessibility of advanced cyberinfrastructure to students and researchers of regional institutions while catalyzing multi-institutional research collaborations, thereby forming a computational research and education hub in the region?the Southern California Research Computing Alliance.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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