Krell Institute

The Krell Institute is a 501(3)(c) corporation located in Ames, Iowa near Iowa State University. The organization was founded in 1997 in support of the US Department of Energy's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship program (CSGF), and has since grown to include a number of other US government contracts towards its mission of serving the science, technology, and education communities.

Krell is overseen by a four-member board of directors, including the company's President, Jim Corones. It is named for the Krell race in the 1956 science-fiction movie Forbidden Planet.

Supported programs[]

• The Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF) for PhD students, sponsored by the US Department of Energy.^[1]
• The webzine, a component of CSGF, covering breakthroughs at the national laboratories.^[2]
• The (SSGF) for PhD students, sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration.^[3]
• The webzine sponsored by the US Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (OASCR),^[4] covering research into high-performance computing.
• The now-discontinued (HPCSF) for PhD students, sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories.
• The now-discontinued program for high-school students, sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• The now-discontinued program for undergraduate and advanced high-school students sponsored by the US Department of Energy.

Partnerships[]

• supports programs and initiatives related to energy and education.^[5]
• supports, among other things, the project,^[6] which provides tools for benchmarking and optimizing code to run on high-performance computer systems.

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