The University of California, San Diego received a $175,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The award was provided under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) to support the "CLOUD CARTOGRAPHY: MEASUREMENT CAPABILITIES FOR THE MODERN INTERNET" project from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2023. The project aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable...
This $299,968 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in enabling large-scale research projects on the NVIDIA DGX cloud platform. The award aims to assist NAIRR pilot researchers with onboarding, porting workflows, user management, cluster management, software installation, profiling, performance tuning, and data movement...
This $2,228,505 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a cloud-based, open, and collaborative cyberinfrastructure to enable data-driven exploration and modeling of urban data. The project aims to address two critical obstacles in urban computing: the lack of robust, well-engineered tools and open computing platforms, and the dispersed community of cross-disciplinary...
This two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $1,015,971 to the University of California, San Diego for the Cognitive Hardware and Software Ecosystem Community Infrastructure initiative from June 2021 through May 2023. The funding will support the development of shared cyberinfrastructure to enable collaborative research across multiple institutions investigating cognitive computing...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $1.2M Project Grant to Northeastern University from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research to develop next-generation resilient cloud infrastructure to secure scientific cyberinfrastructures including network-attached accelerators. Key focus areas include identifying advanced network-layer attack...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $480,000 to the University of Missouri System to develop and deliver cloud DevOps training modules focused on modernizing scientific workflows in domains such as bioinformatics, healthcare, and agriculture. The goal is to increase the adoption of cloud DevOps tools and technologies within scientific application communities, which can help...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the University of California, Davis to address security vulnerabilities in cloud computing infrastructure and develop defenses against targeted microarchitectural attacks. Over a four-year period from July 2022 to June 2026, the university will conduct a comprehensive threat analysis of cloud schedulers and investigate software-based and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $439,202 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation from July 2021 through June 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds research on addressing data locality issues and developing modern algorithms for load balancing in cloud networks. As part of its mission to support investigator-initiated research and education in computing and information science fields, the NSF program aims to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $327,984 to Hofstra University aims to develop a high-performance cloud operating system (OS) called Octopus OS that can accurately manage dynamic cloud resources. The project will analyze mismatches in virtualized resource abstractions, create accurate resource abstractions using probing techniques, and develop new algorithms to improve application performance and resource utilization in cloud environments. The outcomes of this...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $314,818 project grant to San Diego State University Foundation doing business as San Diego State University Research Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant aims to develop an enhanced open networked airborne computing platform to facilitate design, implementation, and testing of airborne computing systems integrating control, computing, communication, and networking functions. Key...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $23,999,999 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to fund the CloudBank 2 project. CloudBank 2 is a service-based resource that brokers access to commercial cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, empowering researchers to leverage these evolving cloud resources for their work. The project builds upon the original CloudBank infrastructure, enhancing services such as a cloud portal, financial operations, and an education hub to facilitate cloud computing access and usage. Key focus areas include supporting projects with regulated data, enhancing AI education, providing portal tools for communities and science gateways, and integrating new cloud vendors. A team of experts assists researchers in effectively utilizing commercial cloud services to advance research across multiple domains. The project period runs from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2030.