The org I work on develops HTCondor. We have a lot of scientists that end up running alphafold and other bio related models on our pool of GPUs and CPUs. I am curious to know how and why your team implemented yet another job scheduler. HTCondor is agnostic to the software being ran, so maybe there is more clever scheduling you can come up with. That being said, HTCondor also has pretty high flexibility with regards to policy.
NSF’s TIP Directorate announced Tech Labs, a new program to fund full-time, independent research teams outside universities and industry. The goal is to tackle technical bottlenecks that traditional grant cycles and institutional structures struggle with. Teams would receive multi-year, milestone-based funding and autonomy to push early concepts to commercially viable technology.