INDUSTRY

Indiana University will announce a major National Science Foundation Award to lead a nationwide supercomputing research project among several U.S. universities to create the next generation of supercomputing networks.

IU won the grant in a competition that pitted it against several of the nation's leading information-technology research institutions.

University officials will also discuss how key investments by the Lilly Endowment and Indiana General Assembly over the past 10 years created the cyberinfrastructure that put Indiana University in position to successfully bid for this project.

News conference to outline details of a National Science Foundation award to Indiana University as lead researcher for a supercomputing research project involving nine other national and international research institutions.

Brad Wheeler, IU vice president for information technology; Bobby Schnabel, IU interim vice president for research and dean of the School of Informatics.

If technology permits, IU President Michael A. McRobbie will teleconference from China, where he is participating in Gov. Daniels' economic development tour.