Larry Smarr founded and directed institutions that helped define national supercomputing, distributed cyberinfrastructure, and cross-disciplinary digital research. Explore each institute’s proposal and related archive.
1985–2000
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Larry Smarr founded NCSA at the University of Illinois and served as its director, helping bring advanced computing, visualization, and the early web to a national research community.
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2000–2020
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Larry Smarr was founding director of Calit2, the UC San Diego and UC Irvine partnership now represented at UC San Diego by the Qualcomm Institute.
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