FlagshipActive since 2024
IOWarp
Scientific AI grounded in context, persistent memory, and scalable data systems
30 publications · 18 contributors · NSF OAC-2411318 (opens in a new tab)
Research areas
Memory systems architecture
Memory hierarchy modeling, cache management, and compile- and run-time tools for high-performance systems.
Parallel and distributed I/O
I/O buffering, parallel file systems, and data movement across deep memory and storage hierarchies.
Resource management
Task scheduling, data placement, and fast data access for high-end computing.
Agentic science and AI
Context engineering and agent coordination for autonomous discovery: the CLIO architecture within IOWarp, memory layers for multi-agent systems, and AI-driven scientific workflows.
Featured projects
ChronoLog
A time-ordered shared log with concurrent access and tiered capacity
Active since 2021v3.5.0 (opens in a new tab),
LABIOS
A patented label-based I/O paradigm, rebuilt as an agent I/O runtime for HPC applications and AI agents
Active since 2017labios-2.0 (opens in a new tab) branch
DTIO
A task-based I/O runtime unifying HPC, Big Data, and ML data stacks through the DataTask abstraction
Active since 2023
DOE Genesis Mission
Portus with PNNL and SPOTTER-AI with Argonne
Latest
Publications
All publicationsSC 2026
Trigger, Render, Reason: Multimodal LLM Agents for Science-Aware Scientific Simulation MonitoringPACT 2026
Improving Data Reuse across Blocks for Efficient Block-Sparse Transformers on GPUseScience 2026
Acropolis: A Portable, AI-Driven Semantic Search System for HPCeScience 2026
Agent Error Simulator: Fault Injection for Testing Recovery in Agentic Workflows
News
All newsReleaseNov 2026
CLIO autumn releases add Intel GPU support and a data agentReleaseNov 2026
ChronoLog 3.3 to 3.5 add durable writes and a new dependency stackPresentationsOct 2026
GRC brings eleven works, a BoF and a SPOTTER-AI demo to SC26FundingAug 2026
GRC joins two DOE Genesis Mission projects with Argonne and PNNL
A center that builds what it publishes.
GRC builds memory, storage and I/O systems with national laboratories, federal agencies and industry. To start a collaboration, write to the center’s leads: Xian-He Sun, founding director (sun@illinoistech.edu) and Anthony Kougkas, executive director (akougkas@illinoistech.edu).
Sponsors and laboratories
The full partner network →
Department of Energy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
Argonne National Laboratory
Chameleon Cloud Testbed
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories