The Krell Institute is a 501(3)(c)

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located in

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near

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. The organization was founded in 1997 in support of the

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Computational Science Graduate Fellowship The Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF) program is a highly selective graduate fellowship program sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by the Krell Institute. Started in 1990, it awards four-year fello ...

program (CSGF), and has since grown to include a number of other US government contracts towards its mission of serving the

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, and

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communities. Krell is overseen by a four-member

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, including the company's President, Jim Corones. It is named for the

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race in the 1956

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Supported programs

*The

(CSGF) for PhD students, sponsored by the US Department of Energy. *The DEIXIS Online webzine, a component of CSGF, covering breakthroughs at the national laboratories. *The Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (SSGF) for PhD students, sponsored by the

National Nuclear Security Administration The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is a United States federal agency responsible for safeguarding national security through the military application of nuclear science. NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, and e ...

. *The ASCR Discovery webzine sponsored by the US Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (OASCR), covering research into high-performance computing. *The now-discontinued High-Performance Computing Science Fellowship (HPCSF) for PhD students, sponsored by

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

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, and

Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), also known as Sandia, is one of three research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Headquartered in Kirtland Air Force Ba ...

. *The now-discontinued Adventures in Supercomputing program for high-school students, sponsored by

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a U.S. multiprogram science and technology national laboratory sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered, managed, and operated by UT–Battelle as a federally funded research and ...

. *The now-discontinued Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences Project program for undergraduate and advanced high-school students sponsored by the US Department of Energy.

Partnerships

* Krell Energy Efficiency supports programs and initiatives related to energy and education. * Argo Navis Technology supports, among other things, the OpenSpeedShop project,http://www.openspeedshop.org which provides tools for benchmarking and optimizing code to run on high-performance computer systems.

References

{{Authority control Non-profit organizations based in Iowa Organizations established in 1997