NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.
The NVIDIA Academic Grant Program awards in-kind GPU compute and physical hardware to faculty-led research projects at PhD-granting universities worldwide. Awards are unrestricted gifts — no cash is transferred, no intellectual property is assigned to NVIDIA — and recipients are asked only to acknowledge NVIDIA in resulting publications and provide semi-annual progress updates. Three active calls …
GPU cloud compute and hardware awards for faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities worldwide, across three active tracks: scientific simulation and quantum computing, AI training and model development, and AI inference and compound AI systems.
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