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Good fit for eligible GRC students working on storage and I/O systems, distributed computing, or AI infrastructure. Apply directly; no faculty nomination is required. Second-year graduate students are not eligible. Joint bachelor's-master's students may apply in the final undergraduate or first graduate year. Reference letters are due October 16, 2026 at 8 p.m. Eastern. Application deadlines vary by major field of study.

25th year of the program. Includes interaction with NVIDIA architects/engineers. Strong fit for students working on GPU-accelerated data management, DyTO, or IOWarp-CUDA integration.

Strong fit for students in distributed systems, AI infrastructure, or multi-agent systems.

Good for students working on cloud-native data management, AI infrastructure.

Postdoc track also available: $80,000/yr stipend + $10K research for 3 years.

160+ research areas covered. Team-based application (2 PhD students).

Presented at the SC conference.

Workshop/award format at the intersection of systems and ML.

Funds research visits to other institutions.

Sends students to Argonne, ORNL, LBNL, etc. for 3-12 months.

NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is a DOE computing facility. Summer 2026 offers 15+ projects spanning quantum computing, agentic AI for HPC operations, GPU performance modeling, scientific AI workload benchmarking, container engineering, load balancing, and metascheduling. Projects of particular relevance to GRC students include: "Agentic AI for HPC Operations and Scientific AI Infrastructure", "Performance Benchmarking of Scientific AI Workloads for Next-Gen HPC Systems", "GPU Performance Modeling", "Improving AMReX Load Balancing Algorithms", "Spin Workload Analysis" (storage I/O focus), and "Container Images for the NERSC Programming Environment". Also part of the Computing Sciences Area summer program at LBNL.