Support for Academics & Researchers
NVIDIA believes in extending our University investment to include support of teaching, research, and advanced education. NVIDIA currently has five programs at varying levels of participation and collaboration.
The focus of the Academic Partnership Program (formerly Professor Partnership) is to form partnerships with academic researchers worldwide doing research and/or teaching using the power of the GPU. The program is an application process and support can be requested for small scale NVIDIA equipment donations (1-2 boards). We typically review hardware requests on a bi-weekly basis, but with GTC coming up we will be a couple weeks behind. We'll notify you of the results of your submissions as soon as we can.
CUDA Center of Excellence Program
The CUDA Center of Excellence (CCOE) program recognizes, rewards, and fosters collaboration with universities at the forefront of massively parallel manycore computing research. Schools identified as CUDA Centers of Excellence have proposed a unique vision for improving the technology and application of parallel computing. The CUDA Center of Excellence program is competitive and prestigious. Universities meeting the requirements are invited to submit proposals to NVIDIA at any time; proposals will be evaluated on a rolling basis.
Institutions identified as CUDA Research Centers are doing world-changing research in a particular domain or field by leveraging CUDA and NVIDIA GPUs. Any institution whose primary goals include research can apply for the CUDA Research Center program. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, typically quarterly. We are currently reviewing proposals submitted prior to April 11, 2012 and expect to announce the results early June. The next review will be early August 2012, application deadline is July 11, 2012.
The CUDA Teaching Center Program is designed to support and encourage teaching establishments to include GPU Computing using CUDA C/C++ as part of their course offerings. To help facilitate this teaching effort, NVIDIA may grant equipment, funding and/or course material assistance. This is an application based program and applications are reviewed on a quarterly basis. We are currently reviewing proposals submitted prior to April 11, 2012 and expect to announce the results early June. The next review will be early August 2012, application deadline is July 11, 2012.
The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides funding to Ph.D. students who are researching topics that will lead to major advances in a number of fields, and are investigating innovative ways of leveraging the power of the GPU. We select students each year who have the talent, aptitude and initiative to work closely with us early in their careers. Recipients not only receive crucial funding for their research, but are able to conduct groundbreaking work with access to NVIDIA products, technology and NVIDIA engineers. Students should have completed at least one year of their doctoral program with some results of their research. Our application period is now closed and we are reviewing applications, with the results announced mid March 2012.