Project Grant 80NSSC22K1744

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $120,621 to the University of Houston System to develop a virtual computational storage system called μ-HDF5. The key objectives are to: 1) create an HDF5-compatible interface and support a variety of computer kernels, 2) identify, dispatch, and execute compute kernels on faster devices across multiple I/O layers in high-performance computing (HPC) systems,...

This Project Grant award of $479,358 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of a virtual computational storage system, called μ-HDF5, to accelerate data-driven scientific applications on supercomputers. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) develop an HDF5-compatible interface with support for a variety of computer kernels, 2) identify, dispatch, and execute compute kernels on faster devices...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,500 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049) to Lifeboat LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Champaign, Illinois. The grant, titled "TOWARD ROBUST HDF5", is funding research and development to enhance the functionality, security, and performance of the HDF5 data storage format, which is critical for high-performance computing and scientific research applications. The project has a completion date of November 17, 2025 and...

This Project Grant award of $289,136.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of a scalable and extensible I/O runtime and tools for next-generation adaptive data layouts. The research aims to create a comprehensive data management solution that can address the data movement challenges posed by exascale computing. Key deliverables include: A scalable and tunable parallel I/O runtime that enables...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $225,000 to Rutgers, The State University to develop middleware and prototypes that enable the seamless federation of commercial cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) resources. The project will investigate advanced resource management approaches to integrate data-driven methods with computational simulations for improved sea-level rise...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $540,000 to The Pennsylvania State University to develop a scalable, automated software infrastructure for computational storage devices (CSDs) used in high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The project aims to create compiler-directed optimizations, a runtime system, and simulation tools to enable more intelligent orchestration of heterogeneous...

This two-year, $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support Duke University in developing the Flexible Affordable Scalable Technology for Research Storage system. Commonly known as FAST, this shared research storage system utilizes commodity data center hardware and open source Ceph software to provide flexible, high-performance, and...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of scalable software to realize "data polymorphism" - a novel paradigm that enables fast and adaptable scientific data retrieval with tailored error control. The key products and services to be delivered include: A generic framework to abstract the generation of progressive data representations, allowing for...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $599,276 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Sponsored Projects Services, from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The grant supports the development of novel application-layer models, algorithms, and tools to enable energy-efficient and high-performance data...

This $599,261 National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Project Grant supports the development of the Kingfisher framework's LotManager library to enable shared storage management across distributed computing resources. Specifically, the Morgridge Institute for Research will develop the first element of the Kingfisher framework to facilitate sharing of finite storage capacity across users and projects through July 2025. They will architect the storage management...