Materials for Grants

Obtaining Funding for Computational Research

The research computing group is available to assist researchers in the development of grants for computational research. General grant-writing support is available at the University of Louisville through the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research. Services offered by research computing include consultation on novel ideas for computational research, collaboration on grants when suitable in-house expertise is available, and making letters of support for grants available when necessary (please forward us a description of the project and provide 3 business days advanced notice).

Text describing the research cyberinfrastructure at the University of Louisville suitable for immediate inclusion into proposals are offered in general and detailed versions. The general version follows in the next paragraph while the detailed version is available in Microsoft Word and PDF formats. A diagram of the cluster is also available for use as a figure or in talks. If letters of support are required, please contact us to request one.

A general overview of the UofL research cyberinfrastructure follows:

The University of Louisville’s central research-computing infrastructure includes multiple systems serving the research needs of the entire university. The Cardinal Research Cluster (CRC) includes a high-performance distributed-memory cluster, a high-memory SMP machine, an informatics data management system, a visualization server, and other support servers. The distributed-memory cluster has 312 IBM iDataplex nodes with a total of 2496 processor cores. The SMP machine has 16 IBM Power6 CPUs and 128 GB of memory. The visualization server contains two quad-core AMD Opteron processors and an nVidia Quadro FX5600 graphics processing unit with 128 processor cores. The Informatics data management system has 20 TB of dedicated storage and is optimized for transaction processing in Oracle along with provided MySQL database management systems. All research systems share 100 TB of data storage and archiving space. All the systems are housed in the University's secure data center and are be administered by a team of specialized HPC system administrators supported by a team of research computing consultants with experience in HPC software and database design, development and optimization.

Contact us at it-hpc@louisville.edu with any questions or for additional information.

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