James S. Plank -- External Funding

• Reinforcement Learning with Ferroelectric Neuromorphic Processors, Army Research Laboratory, $629,888. 9/2023-8/2025. Co-PI with Catherine D. Schuman (Lead).

• Neuromorphic Maker's Kit, Accenture, Inc, $100,000 gift, 7/2023. Lead PI with Co-PI's Garrett Rose and Catherine D. Schuman.

• Neuromorphic Prototype Demo, DoD, Missile Defense Agency, STTR Phase II led by Arete Associates, Inc., $750,000, https://www.sbir.gov/node/2320949, 8/01/2022 - 8/1/2024. Lead PI with Co-PI's Garrett Rose and Catherine D. Schuman.

• Design of an Adaptable Neuromorphic System for Exploring Nanoelectronic Options, DOD - Air Force - AFRL - Air Force Research Laboratory, FA8750-21-1-1018. $2,015,194, 10/1/2020 - 9/30/2023. Co-PI with Garrett Rose (lead) and Ahmed Aziz.

• Bio-inspired Autonomous Neuromorphic Detector for Identification and Tracking (BANDIT), DoD, Missile Defense Agency, STTR Phase I led by Arete Associates, Inc., $57,298, https://www.sbir.gov/node/2163165, 4/30/2021 - 10/31/2021. Single PI.

• Neuromorphic and Dynamic Learning Computing, UT-Battelle, $42,999, January, 2020 - August, 2020. Single PI.

• Design Approaches for Efficient Reconfigurable Neuromorphic Systems, $1,546,584, Air Force Research Laboratory, FA8750-19-1-0025, January, 2019 - December, 2021. Co-PI with Garrett Rose (Lead) and Mark Dean.

• Using the TENNLab Software Stack to Explore and Demonstrate Capabilities of Loihi, Intel Corporation, $30,398, July, 2018 - July, 2019. Single PI.

• CIF: Small: Collaborative Research: A software toolbox for computing and exploring the fundamental limits of information systems, National Science Foundation, CCR-1816518, $180,005.00, October, 2018 - September 2021. This is collaborative research with Chao Tian (Texas A&M).

• Design of a Memristive Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Array (mrDanna), Air Force Research Laboratory, FA8750-16-1-0065, $1,217,929, December, 2015 - December 2018. Co-PI with Garrett Rose and Mark Dean.

• Adding Robustness to Key-Value Stores with Erasure Codes, $30,000, IBM Faculty Award, December, 2012.

• REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) for CSR-Small: Developing and Implementing High Performance Erasure Codes to Tolerate Storage Failures, CSR-1246277, $16,000, National Science Foundation, August, 2012 - August, 2014.

• REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) for CSR-Small: Developing and Implementing High Performance Erasure Codes to Tolerate Storage Failures, CSR-1128847, $16,000, National Science Foundation, August, 2011 - August, 2014.

• CSR-Small: Developing and Implementing High Performance Erasure Codes to Tolerate Storage Failures, CSR-1016636, $410,036, National Science Foundation, September, 2010 - August, 2014. Single PI.

• REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) CSR-PDOS: Exploring and Developing Improved Erasure Codes for Storage Systems, CNS-1034216, $15,000 National Science Foundation, Summer, 2010.

• Erasure-Coded Caching in Cloud Computing and Storage Environments, $24,000, Google, Inc., August 1, 2009 - July 31, 2010. Single PI.

• REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) CSR-PDOS: Exploring and Developing Improved Erasure Codes for Storage Systems, CNS-0729861, $9,375 National Science Foundation, Summer, 2007.

• CSR-PDOS: Exploring and Developing Improved Erasure Codes for Storage Systems, $395,892 National Science Foundation, CNS-0615221, August 1, 2006 - July 31, 2010. Single PI.

• Active Logistical State Management for Distributed and Grid Application Environments, $587,083 National Science Foundation, CNS-0437508, September 1, 2004 - August 31, 2007. Co-PI with Jian Huang, Micah Beck and Jack Dongarra.

• CISE Research Resources: A National Logistical Networking Testbed, $1,852,936, National Science Foundation, EIA-0224441, November, 2002 - October, 2005. Co-PI with Micah Beck, Rich Wolski, Miron Livny and Jack Dongarra.

• NGS: Optimizing Performance and Reliability in Distributed Computing Systems Through Wide Spectrum Storage Services,, $814625, National Science Foundation, ACI-0204007, November 2002 - September 2005. Co-PI with Micah Beck, Jack Dongarra, Henri Casanova and Richard Wolski.

• GridSolve: A System for Grid-enabling General Purpose Problem Solving Environments, $1,510,585, National Science Foundation, ANI-0222945, July, 2002 - June, 2004. Co-PI with Jack Dongarra, Micah Beck and Henri Casanova.

• Optimizing Performance and Enhancing Functionality of Distributed Applications Using Logistical Networking, $1,499.699, Department of Energy, DE-FC02-01ER25465, August, 2001 -- August, 2004. Co-PI with Micah Beck, Jack Dongarra and Rich Wolski.

• A Research Testbed for Services Based on Logistical Networking, $998,799, National Science Foundation, ANI-9980203, August, 2000 -- July, 2003. Co-PI with Micah Beck, Bert Dempsey and Rich Wolski.

• Research Infrastructure: The Scalable Intracampus Research Grid for Computer Science Research, $1,968,088, National Science Foundation, EIA-9972889 (mostly equipment), February, 2000 -- January, 2005. Co-PI with Jack Dongarra, Micah Beck, Bob Ward, Rich Wolski, others.

• Next Generation Software: Logistical QoS through Application-Driven Scheduling of Remote Storage, $1,300,000, National Science Foundation, EIA-9975015, August, 1999 -- July, 2002. Co-PI with Micah Beck, Jack Dongarra, Rich Wolski, Francine Berman and Henri Casanova.

• Optimizing Distributed Application Performance Using Logistical Networking, $899,963, U. S. Department of Energy, DE-FC0299ER25396, October, 1999 -- September, 2002. Co-PI with Micah Beck, Jack Dongarra, and Rich Wolski.

• NetSolve: Enabling Environment for Fault Tolerant, High Performance Network Computing $398,101, National Science Foundation, ACI-9876895, May 1999 -- April 2002. Co-PI with Jack Dongarra.

• CISE Research Instrumentation: Enabling Technology for High-Performance Heterogeneous Clusters Focusing on Grid Middleware, Fault Tolerance and Sparse Matrix Computations $150,000, National Science Foundation, EIA-9818334 (equipment), March 1999 -- February 2002. Co-PI with Jack Dongarra and Padma Raghavan.

• CAREER: Algorithms and Tools for Fault Tolerance and Migration in Distributed Computing Environments, $205,000, National Science Foundation, CCR-9703390, August, 1997 - August, 2001.

• Shared University Research Grant, $1,300,000 (equipment), IBM, 1996. Co-PI with Bob Ward, Jack Dongarra, Peter Cummings, Kwai Wong, JICS.

• High-Performance ATM Network for Computational Science, $100,000 (equipment), National Science Foundation, CDA-95-29459, February 1996 -- January 1997. Co-PI with Michael Berry, Padma Raghavan, Jens Gregor and Mark Jones.

• Efficient Checkpointing for Scientific Computing $10,000, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, April, 1995.

• Fast Checkpointing in Parallel Environments, $85,928, National Science Foundation, CCR-9409496, August, 1994 - August 1997.

• Science Alliance Research Award, $5,000, University of Tennessee and ORNL Science Alliance. Received award in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999.