National Science Foundation

Virtual Apprentice offers virtual reality workplace and occupational training. They also utilize VR to help with recruitment, upskilling, and employment retention. Their training content enhances productivity in healthcare, construction, communications, technology, transportation, manufacturing, hospitality, and education.

NanoVMs Inc. specializes in providing a managed platform based on unikernel technology, designed for both public and private cloud environments. The company’s offerings include a fully managed production-ready unikernel platform, a unikernel database that enhances security by preventing shell code exploits, and a unikernel firewall. In addition to these products, NanoVMs also delivers managed services, application development, and migration services for businesses adopting unikernel technology. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NanoVMs is recognized as the sole provider of a production-ready unikernel platform in the industry, enabling companies to operate applications more efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively on their existing infrastructure.

VerImmune, based in Baltimore, Maryland, is an immuno-oncology company focused on developing innovative cancer therapies through a unique approach called Anti-tumor Immune Redirection. The company employs proprietary virus-inspired particles, known as Anti-tumor Immune Redirection Virus-inspired Particles (AIR-ViPs), which harness pre-existing immune memory from past infections or childhood vaccinations to target tumors. This strategy aims to offer a new treatment option for patients with limited alternatives or those who have developed resistance to conventional cancer therapies. VerImmune's technology seeks to deliver low toxicity and sustainable benefits across a wide array of cancers, potentially reshaping the treatment landscape for difficult-to-treat cases.

Cloud services have become ubiquitous to all major 21st century economic activities. However, cloud services and technologies can be significantly more powerful than they are now. A persistent barrier to further advancement has been the lack of a large-scale and open cloud research platforms. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Chameleon project will provide such a large-scale platform to the open research community allowing them explore transformative concepts in deeply programmable cloud services, design, and core technologies. Chameleon will allow users to explore problems ranging from the creation of Software as a Service to kernel support for virtualization. This broad range of supported research includes many other areas such as developing Platforms as a Service, creating new and optimizing existing Infrastructure as a Service components, investigating software-defined networking, and optimizing virtualization technologies. The Chameleon testbed, will be deployed at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center and will consist of 650 multi-core cloud nodes, 5PB of total disk space, and leverage 100 Gbps connection between the sites. While a large part of the testbed will consist of homogenous hardware to support large-scale experiments, a portion of it will support heterogeneous units allowing experimentation with high-memory, large-disk, low-power, GPU, and co-processor units. The project will also leverage existing FutureGrid hardware at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center in its first year to provide a transition period for the existing FutureGrid community of experimental users. To support the broad range of experiments experiments described above, the project will support a graduated configuration system allowing full user configurability of the software stack, from provisioning of bare metal and network interconnects to delivery of fully functioning cloud environments. A special feature of Chameleon is that it provides for an exceptionally close integration of clouds and networks, which substantially enhances the capabilities of both. In addition, to facilitate experiments, Chameleon will support a set of services designed to meet researchers needs, including support for experimental management, reproducibility, and repositories of trace and workload data of production cloud workloads. The project is led by the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and partners from the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University, the Ohio State University, and University of Texas at San Antonio, comprising a highly qualified and experienced team. The team includes members from the NSF supported FutureGrid project and from the GENI community, both forerunners of the NSFCloud solicitation under which this project is funded. Chameleon will also form a set of partnerships with commercial and academic clouds, such as Rackspace, CERN and Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC), and will partner with other testbeds, notably GENI and INRIA's Grid'5000 testbed.

Exotanium Inc. develops cloud resource management, cloud optimizations, and cost reductions software system. It offers X-Spot, a tool that dynamically relocate containers between spot instances and regular instances and X-Consolidate, it Pack containers when workload decreases, and expand them when it increases. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Ithaca, New York.

Stateless, Inc. specializes in providing innovative network architecture solutions for organizations utilizing private or hybrid cloud infrastructures. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, the company offers a software-defined interconnect network platform known as Luxon, which enables colocation providers to deliver dynamic routing, security, and automation services at network interconnection points. Stateless focuses on enhancing connectivity by allowing providers to control and connect various endpoints, including data centers, tenant sites, and hyperscale clouds. Through its enterprise software platform, Stateless integrates scalable, fault-tolerant network functions with virtualization capabilities, facilitating the creation of multi-tenant connectivity services that are flexible, scalable, and cost-effective for cloud service providers.

Hard-to-reproduce bugs waste developers’ time. Cloudseal’s goal is to make computing reliable and predictable, with all bugs instantly and accurately reproducible. To that end, Cloudseal’s secure deterministic container technology enables efficient, always-on recording of software behavior.

Exotanium Inc. develops cloud resource management, cloud optimizations, and cost reductions software system. It offers X-Spot, a tool that dynamically relocate containers between spot instances and regular instances and X-Consolidate, it Pack containers when workload decreases, and expand them when it increases. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Ithaca, New York.

Intensivate specializes in advanced chip technology designed to enhance data center performance, particularly for analytics and database workloads. The company has developed a product known as IntenScale, a PCIe card that effectively replaces 21 standard servers while consuming only 350W of power. This card is equipped with 21 patented Cluster CPU chips, each featuring 16 cores and 16 threads, culminating in a total of 336 cores and 5367 threads, along with 672GB of DRAM. Intensivate's solutions are particularly beneficial for cloud, on-premises, and edge applications that do not effectively utilize GPUs, FPGAs, or general-purpose CPUs. By enabling significant improvements in data processing performance without requiring modifications to existing software, Intensivate positions itself as a leader in addressing the needs of memory-intensive and parallel processing applications.

Revolution Computing is developing a radical new approach to accelerating emerging sparse machine learning workloads. Through the Revolution Architecture, we are capable of delivering 4x the performance at half of the energy of alternative solutions. These capabilities come from fundamentally re-inventing the microprocessor to handle an era where irregular compute and abundant data access patterns are commonplace.

Stateless, Inc. specializes in providing innovative network architecture solutions for organizations utilizing private or hybrid cloud infrastructures. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, the company offers a software-defined interconnect network platform known as Luxon, which enables colocation providers to deliver dynamic routing, security, and automation services at network interconnection points. Stateless focuses on enhancing connectivity by allowing providers to control and connect various endpoints, including data centers, tenant sites, and hyperscale clouds. Through its enterprise software platform, Stateless integrates scalable, fault-tolerant network functions with virtualization capabilities, facilitating the creation of multi-tenant connectivity services that are flexible, scalable, and cost-effective for cloud service providers.

Virta Laboratories, Inc. develops monitoring and anti-malware solutions. It provides PowerGuard, a pass-through plug that analyzes equipment’s power consumption for anomalies and signs of malware. Virta Laboratories, Inc. has a strategic alliance with Coalfire. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Immunant is a systems software consultancy company that specializes in system security, compilers, and operating systems. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Virta Laboratories, Inc. develops monitoring and anti-malware solutions. It provides PowerGuard, a pass-through plug that analyzes equipment’s power consumption for anomalies and signs of malware. Virta Laboratories, Inc. has a strategic alliance with Coalfire. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Veriflow is a technology company that focuses on enhancing network security and reliability through formal verification of network infrastructure. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Veriflow employs continuous network verification technology to predict potential outages and vulnerabilities before they can impact business operations. This proactive approach allows IT teams to maintain secure and resilient networks by identifying and addressing issues quickly, often in just a few clicks. Supported by notable investors such as New Enterprise Associates, Menlo Ventures, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Defense, Veriflow is dedicated to ensuring that enterprises can effectively manage their network performance and security.

Nutanix is a cloud software company that provides a comprehensive enterprise cloud platform, enabling organizations to build and manage hybrid multi-cloud infrastructures. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix offers a range of solutions, including Acropolis for virtualization and storage, Nutanix Prism for management and analytics, and Nutanix Calm for application lifecycle automation. The company's services also encompass software-defined storage solutions, cloud-native environment management, and disaster recovery services. Notably, Nutanix Beam, a multi-cloud optimization service, enhances cloud cost efficiency by delivering insights into consumption patterns and automating security compliance. Serving diverse industries such as healthcare, finance, and technology, Nutanix aims to simplify IT operations, allowing businesses to focus on innovation while efficiently managing their data and applications across various environments.

Private Machines was founded by world-renowned Computer Science PhDs and Professors doing research in Cyber Security and Cloud Computing for decades. We have PhDs write security proofs for our technology and certify it with NIST. They do not believe in pseudo-security or security by obscurity. They do not use “order preserving” encryption, “tokenization” or other marketing-driven approaches. Security is extremely difficult to get right and the devil always lies in the details.

Veriflow is a technology company that focuses on enhancing network security and reliability through formal verification of network infrastructure. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Veriflow employs continuous network verification technology to predict potential outages and vulnerabilities before they can impact business operations. This proactive approach allows IT teams to maintain secure and resilient networks by identifying and addressing issues quickly, often in just a few clicks. Supported by notable investors such as New Enterprise Associates, Menlo Ventures, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Defense, Veriflow is dedicated to ensuring that enterprises can effectively manage their network performance and security.

Private Machines was founded by world-renowned Computer Science PhDs and Professors doing research in Cyber Security and Cloud Computing for decades. We have PhDs write security proofs for our technology and certify it with NIST. They do not believe in pseudo-security or security by obscurity. They do not use “order preserving” encryption, “tokenization” or other marketing-driven approaches. Security is extremely difficult to get right and the devil always lies in the details.

Vivisimo is a provider of advanced search solutions designed to optimize information access for enterprises. The company offers a web meta-search engine platform that organizes and clusters search results, employing a comparative ranking system to enhance the relevance of information retrieval. This technology enables various sectors, including government, life sciences, manufacturing, electronics, and consumer goods, to efficiently locate and leverage pertinent information, regardless of its source or format. Vivisimo's offerings include standalone search applications and OEM versions that can be integrated into partner solutions. The company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, USA, and collaborates with partners globally to deliver its innovative products, which incorporate user-friendly interfaces, flexible security management, and a modern architecture for rapid deployment.

Vivisimo is a provider of advanced search solutions designed to optimize information access for enterprises. The company offers a web meta-search engine platform that organizes and clusters search results, employing a comparative ranking system to enhance the relevance of information retrieval. This technology enables various sectors, including government, life sciences, manufacturing, electronics, and consumer goods, to efficiently locate and leverage pertinent information, regardless of its source or format. Vivisimo's offerings include standalone search applications and OEM versions that can be integrated into partner solutions. The company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, USA, and collaborates with partners globally to deliver its innovative products, which incorporate user-friendly interfaces, flexible security management, and a modern architecture for rapid deployment.