The Grid Research and educatiOn group @ IoWa (GROW) was established at the beginning of year 2003 to conduct Grid computing research, education, and outreach by integrating The University of Iowa and the state of Iowa computational resources. The vision for GROW is to advance cyberinfrastructure-enabled computational science and engineering by broadening and strengthening connections between Grid and high performance computing community and domain sciences and engineering communities. A main strategy guided by this vision is to create a shared Grid-based campus and state cyberinfrastructure that interoperates with evolving national and global Grid-based cyberinfrastructure.

GROW members included a number of research and education staff, faculty, graduates, and undergraduates with diverse disciplinary expertise such as Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Geography, Physics, Radiology, and Statistics. GROW was founded and managed by Dr. Shaowen Wang who left for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. GROW is currently managed by Dr. Jun Ni and supported by the staff at Research Services within ITS at the University of Iowa. The people involved in the project can be found here.