NSF Grant Award

On August 30, 2022, The Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) at the University of Southern California (USC), in collaboration with USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and the Los Nettos Consortium, were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) CC* program for the proposal “Building Cyberinfrastructure to Forge a Regional Research Computing Alliance in Southern California” (award #2232917).

The funds from this award were used to build a new high-performance computing (HPC) system (Laguna) that expands advanced research computing services to under-resourced institutions in Southern California and the Open Science Grid. Access to these services gives researchers in the local community invaluable hands-on experience in HPC practices that they will carry with them throughout their careers.

This project builds off of the previous collaborative effort to implement a Science DMZ network, made possible by the NSF award USC and collaborators were granted on July 29, 2021 (award #2126319). The Science DMZ connects smaller, under-resourced college campuses to larger regional and national research networks. The addition of Laguna’s cyberinfrastructure strengthens not only the resources available in the region, but the collaborative alliance in the Southern Californian research community.