Funding

The SPRNG project is supported by an Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) Level 3 grant.

Research Grants:

1. NSF International Programs
   Cooperative Research with Austria with Dr. Peter Hellekalek's Random Number Generation (pLab) Group at the University of Salzberg
   Principal Investigator: Michael Mascagni
   Amount: $24,000
   Duration: 3 years beginning September 1999
   Florida State University

2. NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship
   for Dr. Aneta Karaivanova of the Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
   Host and Sponsor: Michael Mascagni
   Amount: $44,400
   Duration: 1 year beginning September 1999
   Florida State University

3. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences Grant
   The Impact of Random Numbers on Parallel Monte Carlo Applications
   Principal Investigator: Michael Mascagni
   Amount: $150,000
   Duration: 3 years beginning February 1999
   University of Southern Mississippi

4. Mississippi NASA Space Grant: University of Southern Mississippi Subcontract
   Principal Investigator: Michael Mascagni
   Amount: $37,250 per year Duration: 1997-1999 University of Southern Mississippi

5. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Program for Italian and Foreign Research Institutions: Short-term Mobility Fellowships
   for Michael Mascagni with sponsorship of Renato Spigler, Dipartimento di Matematica, Unversita di Lecce, Italy
   Amount: travel & lodging expenses, Lit. 2,400,000
   Date: March 1994

Research Contracts:

1. Army Research Office, Mathematical and Computer Science Division, Computational Mathematics Contract
   Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods for Markov Chain Problems
   Principal Investigator: Michael Mascagni
   Amount: $249,000
   Duration: 3 years beginning September 2001

2. ASCI Level III Contract to Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia National Laboratories
   Random Number for ASCI Monte Carlo Applications
   Principal Investigator: Michael Mascagni
   Amount: $494,921
   Duration: 3 years beginning October 1999
   Florida State University

3. Army Research Office, Mathematical and Computer Sciences Division, Computational Mathematics Grant
   Quasirandom Numbers for Parallel and Distributed Applications
   Principal Investigator: Michael Mascagni
   Amount: $487,085
   Duration: 3 years beginning March 1999
   University of Southern Mississippi with a $195,417 subcontract to Florida State University

4. Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Office through Northrop Grumman Data Systems
   Northrop Grumman High Performance Computing Programming Envirnment and Training
   Principal Investigator: Michael Mascagni
   Amount: $100,000 per year
   Duration: 1997-1999
   University of Southern Mississippi

5. DARPA Contract Number DABT63-95-C-0123 for ITO: Scalable Systems and Software
   A Scalable Pseudorandom Number Generation Library for Parallel Monte Carlo Computations
   Principal Investigators: Michael Mascagni and David Ceperly (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
   Amount: $607,106
   Duration: 3 years beginning March 1995
   University of Illinois