---
title: "CRISP (Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory)"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "CRISP (Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory)"
aliases: ["Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory"]
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["processing-in-memory","DNA sequence alignment","DARPA/SRC JUMP program","Kevin Skadron","Tajana Rosing"]
---


A DARPA/SRC JUMP-funded, nine-university, $29.7M research center (2018–2023), UVA-led under director Kevin Skadron, built around processing-in-memory (PIM) hardware. CRISP-funded PIM work spans multiple universities' accelerator projects, including UC San Diego's RAPID/RAPIDx DNA-alignment chips (Tajana Rosing's group) and UVA's Sieve in-DRAM metagenomic classifier (Skadron co-author). The center is also the source of a still-unconfirmed press claim — that PIM cut DNA sequence-alignment time "from 20 hours to less than a second" — which the vault has now investigated across two sessions (2026-07-09, 2026-07-30) without finding a primary source, and whose closest Tier-1 analogue argues against the claimed magnitude.

## References
- [[claim-crisp-20-hours-to-under-a-second-figure-has-no-primary-source]] · [[claim-rapid-rapidx-speedups-fall-short-of-crisp-press-figure]]
- Related hubs: [[entity-kevin-skadron]] · [[entity-tajana-rosing]]
- Captures: 2026-07-09-hop-memory-wall-pim-genomics · 2026-07-30-does-a-primary-source-confirm-crisps-20-hours