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NSF commits $35 million to improve scientific software
July 29, 2016

Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced two major awards to establish Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2). The awards, totaling $35 million over 5 years, will support the Molecular Sciences Software Institute and the 

NSF funds S2I2-HEP conceptualization project
July 11, 2016

NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program has funded a collaborative research project entitled "Conceptualization of an S2I2 Institute for High Energy Physics". The 2-year project involves Peter Elmer (Princeton University),…

Announcing the Princeton IPCC ROOT project
May 3, 2016

Intel has funded an Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) at Princeton University who main target is the modernization of critical libraries in the ROOT data analysis…

The next big LHC upgrade? Software.
March 24, 2016

From Symmetry Magazine, an article which discusses the problem of sustaining the…

NSF funds Parallel Charged Particle Tracking project
July 31, 2015

The NSF "Physics at the Information Frontier" (PIF) program has funded a collaborative research project entitled "Particle Tracking at High Luminosity on Heterogeneous, Parallel Processor Architectures…

NSF funds DIANA/HEP project
May 7, 2015

The NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program has funded a collaborative research project entitled "Data-Intensive Analysis for High Energy Physics (DIANA/HEP)". The 4-year…