Würthwein NSF award 2616251 (web)
Citation
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). “NAIRR-OC: Advancing AI Discovery and Innovation for the Nation.” Award 2616251, award date Aug. 31, 2026. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2616251. Copy: raw/web/2026-11-06 Würthwein NSF award 2616251 (web).md (original: .html beside it). Record read from the NSF awards API, https://api.nsf.gov/services/v1/awards/2616251.json. Read 2026-11-06.
Bottom line
- Frank Wuerthwein is the principal investigator (PI) of NSF award 2616251 at UC San Diego. The award runs the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Operations Center (NAIRR-OC).
- The award is a cooperative agreement with an estimated total of $35,000,000, from Oct. 1, 2026 to Sept. 30, 2031.
Background
The NSF award record for the NAIRR-OC. 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: “NAIRR-OC: Advancing AI Discovery and Innovation for the Nation”. (record, title)
- PI: “Frank” “Wuerthwein”. Co-PIs: “Maytal Dahan”, “Subhashini Sivagnanam”, “Mahidhar Tatineni” and “Ashley E Atkins”. (record, piFirstName, piLastName, coPDPI)
- Recipient: “University of California-San Diego”. Instrument: “Cooperative Agreement”. Program: “NAIRR-Nat AI Research Resource”. (record)
- Estimated total: “35000000”. Obligated to date: “7000000”. Start “10/01/2026”, end “09/30/2031”. (record)
- “The NAIRR-OC serves as the primary gateway through which a broad national community gains coordinated access to AI compute” (abstract)
- The abstract names “decades of cyberinfrastructure leadership at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Texas Advanced Computing Center”. (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 record does not give his title as director of the operations center.
- The abstract was read in part. The record gives no user numbers or hardware list.