A key tenant of CITR's strategy for building a flourishing and sustainable ITR community at UT is to invest in promising ITR Laboratories, each one led by an established researcher or an emerging leader in some significant area of ITR. Experience shows that once a research program grows beyond a certain level of funding and activity, sustaining that success and spurring further growth requires both a) additional research leaders to help broaden and diversify the lines of inquiry and b) organizational investment to help manage the collateral activities (e.g., project and proposal development, grant and contract management) that are inevitable concomitants of such high levels of success. CITR's investment in ITR laboratories is expressly designed to address these general facts of research life. Below are the three CITR laboratories.

http://icl.cs.utk.edu/	The Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL), led by Dr. Jack Dongarra, has been at the forefront of research in high performance and distributed computing for nearly two decades. The progress of scientific inquiry now depends on advances in scientific computing, where ICL continues to pioneer.
http://loci.cs.utk.edu/	The Logistical Computing and Internetworking (LoCI) Laboratory, directed jointly by Drs. Micah Beck and James S. Plank, is devoted to leading edge research in Information Logistics, a new branch of Distributed Computing that studies the flexible co-scheduling of the fundamental physical resources that underpin all computer systems.
http://www.tiem.utk.edu/	Under the leadership of Dr. Louis J. Gross, UT's Institute of Environmental Modeling does basic research in significant environmental problems with important regional, national, and international impact.