Awards

Funding awards

Amounts are total project budgets across all collaborating institutions.

NSF$5,000,000Jun 2025 – May 2030

CSSI: Frameworks: Applying Artificial Intelligence Advances to the Next Generation of Workflow Management on Modern Cyberinfrastructure

Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) · Award 2513101

USC/ISI (Lead) · RENCI · University of Tennessee at Knoxville · University of Massachusetts at Amherst

NSF$600,000Oct 2025 – Sep 2028

Collaborative Research: Cross-Cutting Improvements: Open Science Roadmap for Research Infrastructures

Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) · Award 2531701

University of Notre Dame (Lead) · USC/ISI · RENCI · Indiana University

NSF$369,421Aug 2025 – Jul 2028

REU Site: Exploring the FABRIC Research Instrument to Catalyze Multi-disciplinary Research in Networks, Distributed Systems, and Emerging CyberInfrastructure (CI) Applications

Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) · Award 2447441

RENCI

NSF$1,000,000Jul 2025 – Jun 2028

CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: Cyberinfrastructure Training and Education for Leveraging Advanced Electron Microscopy in Materials Science

Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) · Award 2519465

RENCI (Lead) · USC/ISI · University of Maryland at College Park

NSF$1,000,000Sep 2023 – Aug 2026

CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: CyberInfrastructure Training and Education for Synchrotron X-Ray Science (X-CITE)

Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) · Award 2320373

RENCI (Lead) · USC/ISI · Cornell University

DOE$8,750,000Jul 2023 – Jun 2028

Exploring the Power of Distributed Intelligence for Resilient Scientific Workflows

Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)

USC/ISI (Lead) · RENCI · Lawrence Berkeley National Lab · Argonne National Lab · Oak Ridge National Lab

DOE$3,750,000Sep 2021 – Aug 2024

PosEiDon: Platform for Explainable Distributed Infrastructure

Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)

USC/ISI (Lead) · RENCI · Lawrence Berkeley National Lab · Argonne National Lab

NSF$8,000,000Jul 2021 – Jun 2026

CI CoE: CI Compass: An NSF Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Center of Excellence for Navigating the Major Facilities Data Lifecycle

Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) · Award 2127548

USC/ISI (Lead) · RENCI · University of Notre Dame · University of Utah · Indiana University · Texas Tech University

NSF$750,000Oct 2020 – Sep 2022

CC* Integration-Large: An 'On-the-fly' Deeply Programmable End-to-end Network-Centric Platform for Edge-to-Core Workflows

Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) · Award 2018074

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Lead) · RENCI · USC/ISI · University of Missouri

NSF$3,884,346Oct 2018 – Sep 2021

Pilot Study for a Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence

Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) and Biological Sciences (BIO) · Award 1842042

USC/ISI (Lead) · RENCI · University of Notre Dame · University of Utah · Indiana University

NSF$999,575Sep 2018 – Aug 2022

CICI: SSC: Integrity Introspection for Scientific Workflows (IRIS)

Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) · Award 1839900

RENCI (Lead) · USC/ISI · Indiana University

NSF$1,000,000Aug 2018 – Jul 2021

CC* Integration: Delivering a Dynamic Network-centric Platform for Data-driven Science (DyNamo)

Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) · Award 1826997

RENCI (Lead) · USC/ISI · University of Massachusetts at Amherst · Rutgers University

DOE$3,000,000Sep 2017 – Aug 2021

Panorama 360: Performance data capture and analysis for end-to-end scientific workflows

Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) · Award DE-SC0012636M

USC/ISI (Lead) · RENCI · Lawrence Berkeley National Lab · Oak Ridge National Lab

DOE$3,000,000Sep 2014 – Aug 2017

Predictive Modeling and Diagnostic Monitoring of Extreme Science Workflows

Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) · Award DE-SC0012636

USC/ISI (Lead) · RENCI · Lawrence Berkeley National Lab · Oak Ridge National Lab · RPI

NSF$808,000Sep 2010 – Aug 2014

Collaborative Research: SDCI Net New: The Missing Link: Connecting Eucalyptus Clouds with Multi-Layer Networks

Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) · Award 1032873, 1032573, 1032765

Duke University · RENCI · University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Honors & best paper awards

  • 2023

    Best Paper Award

    IEEE/ACM Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS) Workshop at SC'23 · November 2023

    “Elephants Sharing the Highway: Studying TCP Fairness in Large Transfers over High Throughput Links”

    I. Mahmud, G. Papadimitriou, C. Wang, M. Kiran, A. Mandal, and E. Deelman

  • 2022

    Best Paper Award

    ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Cloud-to-Things Continuum (Cloud2Things 2022) · May 2022

    “Automating Edge-to-cloud Workflows for Science: Traversing the Edge-to-cloud Continuum with Pegasus”

    R. Tanaka, G. Papadimitriou, S. Charan, C. Wang, E. Lyons, K. Thareja, C. Qu, A. Esquivel, E. Deelman, A. Mandal, P. Calyam, and M. Zink

  • 2021

    Best Paper Award

    Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Journal · October 2021

    “End-to-end online performance data capture and analysis for scientific workflows”

    G. Papadimitriou, C. Wang, K. Vahi, R. Silva, A. Mandal, Z. Liu, R. Mayani, M. Rynge, M. Kiran, V. Lynch, R. Kettimuthu, E. Deelman, J. Vetter, and I. Foster

  • 2019

    SCinet Technology Challenge Awards: Most Original Technical Approach & Most Diverse Resource Set

    SC'19 Conference · November 2019

    “Dynamic Network-Centric Multi-Cloud Platform (DyNamo) for Real-Time Weather Forecasting Workflows”

    The DyNamo project team (RENCI/UNC Chapel Hill, USC/ISI, UMass Amherst, and Rutgers University)

  • 2019

    Phil Andrews Most Transformative Contribution Award & Best Paper Award

    Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC '19) · July 2019

    “Integrity Protection for Scientific Workflow Data: Motivation and Initial Experiences”

    M. Rynge, K. Vahi, E. Deelman, A. Mandal, I. Baldin, O. Bhide, R. Heiland, V. Welch, R. Hill, W. L. Poehlman, and A. F. Feltus