Current and Past Grants:
NSF Grant
(EAR-0809489), Karki as the PI
Project title: First-principles molecular dynamics simulations of silicate
liquids: Structure, diffusion and viscosity at mantle conditions
Award amount: $283,726
Duration: 06/01/08-05/31/11
Sponsor: NSF Geosciences Division
NSF Career
(EAR 0347204), Karki as the PI
Project title: Rheology of materials of Earth's mantle:
High-end computational/visualization research and education
Award amount: $465,144
Duration: 06/01/04-05/31/09
Sponsor: NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
NSF Collaborative (EAR 0409074), Karki as the PI
Project title: First principles investigations of silicate liquids
under mantle conditions
Award amount: $150,684
Duration: 07/01/04-06/31/07
Co-PI: Dr. L. Stixrude (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Total award amount: $348,651
Sponsor: NSF Geosciences Division
NSF ITR (ATM 0426601), Karki as the PI
Project title: Virtual laboratory for Earth and planetary materials studies
Award amount: $100,000
Duration: 10/01/04-09/31/08
Lead-PI: Dr. R. Wentzcovitch (University of Minnesota – Twin Cities)
Total award amount: $2.8 millions
Sponsor: NSF Information Technology Research Program
NASA Cooperative (NNA05CP84), Karki as the PI
Project title: Scalable algorithms for high-end parallel and distributed computing
Award amount: $80,000
Duration: 02/01/05-01/31/06
Sponsor: NASA Ames Research Center
Summer Research Stipend from LSU Council on Research, Karki as the PI
GPU-based visualization of scalar volume data; $5,000; July 2007
Louisiana Board of Regent Grants , Karki as the Co-PI
LEQSF Grant, Recruitment of superior students in areas of high-end computation and
visualization at Louisiana State University, $88,000; 09/01/2006-08/31/2009;
PIs: S.S. Iyengar, D. Kraft and B.B. Karki
LEQSF Grant, Recruitment of superior students to the doctoral program in areas
of distributed sensor networking at LSU, $92,000; 09/01/2007-08/31/2010;
PIs: S.S. Iyengar, R. Kannan and B.B. Karki
BoR Enhancement Grant, Development of high-performance sensor networking
infrastructure- wireless testbed and curriculum innovations, $90,000, 2006-2007;
PIs: A. Wilson, A. Durresi, B.B. Karki, R. Kannan and S.S. Iyengar
Other Grants , Karki as a Senior Personnel
NSF ITR on Research on the profiling problem in cybersecurity and anti-terrorism,
Lead-PI: P. Chen, $1.8 millions
NSF IGERT on multiscale computations of fluid dynamics,
Lead-PI: S. Acharya, $3 millions
NSF MRI on Development of viz tangibles and VizNet: Instrumentation for interactive
visualization, simulation, and collaboration, Lead-PI: B. Ullmer, $397,121
NSF MRI on Development of petashare: A distributed data archival, analysis and
visualization system for data intensive collaborative research,
Lead-PI: T. Kosar, $957,678
GAANN on Doctoral research and training in information networks for monitoring,
assessment and relief activities for natural and man-made disasters,
Lead-PI: E. Triantaphyllou, $126,675
LSU Computational Science Cluster Initiative: Computational science
advancing research, society and the economy,
Lead-PI: G. Allen (LSU-CS/CCT), $1 million/year
NSF/BoR EPSCOR, Cyber tools, Lead-PI: E. Seidel (LSU-CCT), $12 millions