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Panda Project Sponsors

The Panda project began in 1993 and has been supported financially by the following:

  • ARPA, through an ARPA Fellowship in High Performance Computing and Communications administered by the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland (UMIACS) (1993 - 1995).
  • NSF under a PYI award to PI Winslett (1993 - 1995) and a grant to PI Sanjay Kale (2002-2005).
  • NASA through two grants and contracts, one to the Horizon project (1994-1997), and one to the HDF and Panda projects (1994 - 1997).
  • Intel, through an Intel Fellowship (1997 - 1998).
  • The Department of Energy's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (1997-present) and a grant to the Center for Programming Models for Scalable Parallel Computing.
  • The Computational Science and Engineering program at the University of Illinois, through a series of CSE Fellowships.

We have also benefitted from access to computing facilities owned by others:

  • NASA Ames Research Center, Numerical Aeronautics Simulation Division, through access to their Intel iPSC/860 and IBM SP2 computing environments (1993-1996).
  • Cornell Supercomputing Center, through access to their IBM SP2 computing environment (1995 - 1996).
  • The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, through access to many of their parallel computing environments (1995-present).
  • HP Labs in Palo Alto, through access to their network of workstations computing environment (1995 - 1996).
  • Dartmouth College, through access to the Fleet Lab computing environment, courtesy of Prof. D. Kotz.
  • Argonne National Laboratory, through access to their IBM SP2 computing environments.
  • IBM Transarc Lab, through access to their local computing environment.


DAIS - Database and Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 201 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA.  Fax: 217-265-6494, Phone: 217-244-6241.