The CUDA Center of Excellence (CCOE) program recognizes, rewards, and fosters collaboration with universities at the forefront of massively parallel computing research. Institutions identified as CUDA Centers of Excellence have proposed a unique vision for improving the technology and application of parallel computing. Through the CUDA Centers of Excellence NVIDIA hopes to:

• Empower academic researchers to do world-changing research by dramatically increasing the computing power available to scientists and engineers - on the desktop, in the laboratory, and in the data center.
• Improve the state of parallel computing education and train the next generation of computer scientists and computational scientists for a world of massively parallel computing.
• Establish research, educational, and recruiting relationships with the foremost academic institutions in the world.

See the complete list of CUDA Centers of Excellence here.