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Wisconsin small- and medium-sized businesses will have the opportunity to gain access to specialized high-performance computing systems and services under a new program unveiled Monday by the Milwaukee Institute, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and Mason Wells.
The Milwaukee Institute, a non‐profit, public service organization, has received matching grants of $250,000 each from the WEDC and Mason Wells, a local private equity management firm, to fund the one-year program, a public‐private initiative that is the first of its kind in Wisconsin.
The funding will be used by the Institute to expand the availability of high-performance computing systems and services for small- and medium-sized businesses in Wisconsin as part of the Institute’s ongoing efforts to promote economic development through technology‐oriented businesses that need such resources to perform complex modeling and simulation studies for new products and services.
Companies can apply for grants of up to $50,000 to access the Institute’s specialized high-capacity computing and storage network called the MGrid. The Institute’s computational scientists will guide new users in the design, setup and use of research and analysis schemes for areas such as 3-D modeling, pattern analysis, and complex system dynamics forecasting. Grants will be awarded to a minimum of five companies.
The Milwaukee Institute will provide the funding to companies through a new Computational Science Challenge Grant Program. The deadline to apply for a grant is January 31, 2014, and companies can get more details about the grant at the Institute’s website, www.mkei.org, or by calling 414.727.6411
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An interactive webinar on the grant will take place at 10 a.m. CST on Thursday, Dec. 12. The free webinar, open to all, will include details on how companies can apply for a challenge grant. Participants in the webinar will be able to ask questions via the webinar or by tweeting them with the hashtag #hpcwis.
To register for the session, visit http://inwisconsin.com/supercomputer.
