GRC and University of Utah Collaborate on IOWarp for the National Data Platform
The Gnosis Research Center and Dr. Manish Parashar's group at the University of Utah are working together to bring IOWarp to the National Data Platform (opens in a new tab) (NDP). The collaboration is not separately funded; it grows out of shared interest in agentic data management for open science.
The work
The National Data Platform aims to make scientific data and computing resources easier for researchers to discover and use. IOWarp's CLIO architecture organizes data, metadata, and computational state as context that AI agents and scientific tools can act on, and the collaboration connects that context layer to NDP.
The first concrete result is an NDP server in CLIO Kit (opens in a new tab), IOWarp's collection of agent tools, released in June 2026. The two groups are now working to deploy CLIO and its ecosystem within the National Data Platform.