Würthwein NSF award 2112167 (web)
Citation
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). “Category II: A Prototype National Research Platform.” Award 2112167, award date June 24, 2021. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2112167. Copy: raw/web/2026-11-06 Würthwein NSF award 2112167 (web).md (original: .html beside it). Record read from the NSF awards API, https://api.nsf.gov/services/v1/awards/2112167.json. Read 2026-11-06.
Bottom line
- Frank Wuerthwein is the principal investigator (PI) of NSF award 2112167 at UC San Diego. The award deploys the “Prototype National Research Platform” (NRP).
- It is a cooperative agreement from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2028. NSF has obligated $13,174,829 to date.
Background
The NSF award record for the National Research Platform (NRP). The award page needs JavaScript, so its copy in raw/web/ has no award data. The data here comes from the NSF awards API record for the same award. This is a profile page. His entity page lists it; no reading list does.
Key claims
- Title: “Category II: A Prototype National Research Platform”. (record, title)
- PI: “Frank” “Wuerthwein”. Co-PIs: “Tajana S Rosing”, “Thomas A DeFanti”, “Mahidhar Tatineni” and “Derek J Weitzel”. (record, piFirstName, piLastName, coPDPI)
- Recipient: “University of California-San Diego”. Instrument: “Cooperative Agreement”. Programs: “Innovative HPC, NAIRR-Nat AI Research Resource”. (record)
- Estimated total: “5000000”. Obligated to date: “13174829”. Start “07/01/2021”, end “06/30/2028”. (record)
- The project “will deploy the “Prototype National Research Platform” (NRP)”. (abstract)
- “This novel, national scale, distributed testbed architecture includes:” (abstract)
Evidence and method
The federal award record. The amounts and dates are NSF data. The abstract is the project’s own description.
Limits
- The obligated amount is larger than the estimated total. The record does not explain the difference.
- The abstract was read in part. The record gives no node or user counts.