4 Advancing granting activities
Over the past decade, we have brought in more than $65M in external grant funding from federal, commercial, and nonprofit agencies. We continued our success in 2022 with new awards, expanded availability of funded systems, and more.
Highlights
CONECTing researchers with next-generation cyberinfrastructure
Collaboration among leaders in RT, UITS Networks, IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, and the Pervasive Technology Institute at IU is key to the $20M CONECT project, funded by the National Science Foundation as part of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS). CONECT will make novel resources accessible to national educators, students, and researchers—particularly those from traditionally underserved audiences.
Broadening access to supercomputing
Big Red 200 became available to all IU researchers in spring 2022. It’s intended to be IU’s premier system supporting hundreds of millions of dollars in grant-funded research annually. With Big Red 200, IU’s research community will be able to do research at a scale and speed that was previously impossible, empowering student success and helping IU to continue as a cutting-edge leader in research and discovery.
Partnering for grant competitiveness
RT maintains cooperative partnerships with higher education institutions providing cyberinfrastructure sites and services, including University of Hawaii, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, Arizona State University, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, University of Arizona, and University of Texas at Austin.
Saving lives in emergencies
In March, the Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab launched the National Institute of Standards and Technology–funded $8M First Responder Smart Tracking Challenge (FRST). FRST is a national innovation challenge that brings together technical teams and first responders to develop technologies to locate first responders inside structures with a high degree of accuracy.
“We are increasingly seeing new Internet of Things and tracking technologies emerging on the market and maturing in research labs around the world. Our goal is to create an environment to accelerate innovations that revolutionize location tracking indoors.”
—Sonny Kirkley, FRST project director
Democratizing artificial intelligence
RT is home to Jetstream, the first NSF-funded cloud system for science and engineering research. Jetstream was awarded more than $14M. Its follow-on, Jetstream2, was funded at $25M with the option for a five-year noncompetitive renewal for an additional $22M. These high-performance systems provide anytime, anywhere access to researchers in the United States.
“The worldwide OpenMRS community—a collection of health information technology experts working together to support the development and implementation of a leading open-source medical record system for resource-constrained environments—depends on cloud infrastructure to support forums, wikis, single sign-on, continuous integration, and development and demonstration environments. Jetstream, and now Jetstream2, not only allows us to host the OpenMRS infrastructure, but also maintain it and adapt it with a small group of volunteers using DevOps best practices.”
—Burke Mamlin, co-founder and chief software architect of OpenMRS, associate professor of clinical medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and investigator at the Regenstrief Institute