iDLab aims to unify access across U.S. National Science Foundation-supported computing centers and two cloud platforms.

The University of California, Los Angeles is leading iDLab, a national initiative intended to create a unified environment for research computing, scientific data and applications. The environment will span several national computing centers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and two cloud platforms.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is one of five institutions assisting the initiative. The project focuses on simplifying access across multiple computing environments rather than deploying a single new supercomputer or centralized cluster.

The supplied announcement does not name the two cloud platforms or enumerate all participating computing centers. It also does not provide a budget, aggregate accelerator count, storage capacity or launch timetable for the unified environment.