HPC Wire (Oct. 25) -- Dr. William “Bill” Gropp, director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Roy Campbell and Jian Peng from the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Volodymyr Kindratenko, also of NCSA, have been awarded over $2.7 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to build a dedicated research instrument to expand deep learning research.