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, 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 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 for PhD students, sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration.
- The ASCR Discovery webzine sponsored by the US Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, covering research into high-performance computing.
- The now-discontinued High-Performance Computing Science Fellowship for PhD students, sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories.
- The now-discontinued Adventures in Supercomputing program for high-school students, sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
- 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, which provides tools for benchmarking and optimizing code to run on high-performance computer systems.