Support IOWarp
Building the context engineering infrastructure that bridges AI agents and petabyte-scale scientific data — open source, research-driven, and community-first.
Our Sponsors
National Science Foundation
IOWarp is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through multiple awards supporting research in high-performance I/O, data management, and scientific computing infrastructure.
Institutional Partners
Illinois Institute of Technology
Gnosis Research Center
University of Utah
The HDF Group
Transparency & Reports
We are committed to open science and research transparency. Our annual reports detail progress, expenditures, and impact.
Published in top-tier systems and HPC conferences and journals.
150+ tools for HDF5, Slurm, ParaView, Pandas, ArXiv, and more.
Seismology, materials science, genomics, climate, astrophysics, and more.
Annual Reports
Annual progress reports and NSF project summaries will be published here for full transparency. Check back for our first public report.
How to Support IOWarp
Research Partnerships
Partner with us on NSF collaborative proposals, joint research initiatives, or industry-academic collaborations in scientific AI and HPC.
Contact Us →Open Source Contributions
Contribute code, documentation, MCP servers, or bug reports. Every pull request makes the platform stronger for the scientific community.
GitHub →Compute & Infrastructure
Provide compute resources, cloud credits, or HPC allocations to help us run benchmarks, CI/CD pipelines, and large-scale research experiments.
Discuss →Spread the Word
Cite our work in your publications, share IOWarp with your research group, present at conferences, or write about your experience using the platform.
Publications →Industry & Corporate Sponsorship
IOWarp is deployed in production scientific environments and actively developed as an open-source platform. If your organization benefits from scientific AI infrastructure, consider supporting our mission through:
- • Named sponsorship tiers with logo placement and acknowledgment
- • Joint development of domain-specific MCP servers
- • Priority support and consulting for enterprise deployments
- • Sponsored research positions and internships
Acknowledgments
IOWarp is developed by the Gnosis Research Center at Illinois Institute of Technology. This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under multiple CSSI and OAC awards. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.