The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.7 million dollar grant to UAF. The money will go toward air-conditioning units to make sure that the university's supercomputers stay cool. The grant will also purchase equipment to make sure the supercomputers will keep running during a power outage, which is important since some research applications may run for days.
UAF is a high research facility where many programs run for several days successively and cannot afford to shutdown during an outage. The grant will also boost network speed of the supercomputers.
Meanwhile, U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor along with Representatives Vic Snyder and Mike Ross announced yesterday that the UAPB gets $231,743 from that NSF grant which will improve computer systems at Philander Smith and UAPB.
The NSF grant dollars will also establish a Minority Training Education consortium which will support workshops for students and faculty on the best ways to use technology in research and education.
Lincoln said she was pleased with the grant to UAPB and Philander Smith because the “investment will expand” research opportunities for students and faculty and provide “access to advance computer systems that are critical to innovative research.”
The National Science Foundation grant is not associated with the $102 million dollar federal grant that UAMS received last week to expand broadband services in Arkansas.
The grant to improve broadband was given to UAMS by the Department of Agriculture and it is one of the biggest monetary awards bestowed upon an Arkansas university or college.
That broadband grant will improve internet connections in every community college in the state as well as 81 hospitals in the state.
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