This five-year, $221,309 National Science Foundation project grant will support the development of secure timing architectures for untrusted edge systems. The awardee, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will create new secure clock sources, time transfer channels, and network protocols to advance the state-of-the-art in timing security. This foundational work will enable safe and efficient systems for emerging applications with strict timing requirements over heterogeneous edge...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $299,152 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research exploring a new approach to digital communication based on state synchronization. Led by Washington University, the award will formalize the semantics and analytical framework for a synchronization model of communication as an alternative to traditional transmit-receive and request-response internet protocols. Over the one-year period from October 1, 2022...
This $281,629 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of partition-oblivious real-time hierarchical scheduling mechanisms and education activities at North Carolina State University from October 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023. The project aims to develop algorithmic solutions that make real-time partitions oblivious to variations in other partitions' temporal behaviors, achieving...
The Trustees of Boston University received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations on October 1, 2021 to support research titled "Architecting the Cosmos: A Combined System of Optical Phase Change Memory and Optical Links." The award will fund research and development activities through September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). This program...
This $500,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to develop efficient implementations of multi-level budget enforcement in complex multithreaded real-time systems running on multicore computers. The research will identify the levels at which budgets must be enforced, examine implications for safety certification of such enforcement, and produce efficient enforcement mechanisms. This work aligns with the goals of the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Trustees Of Boston University for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The grant supports the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: SMALL: FOUNDATIONS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF PRIVATE LEARNING SYSTEMS project under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This program aims to advance computing and information sciences through...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) in the amount of $426,459.00 aims to develop a tool that provides function-level insights with minimal overhead, enabling real-time tuning of high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The project addresses the challenge of performance monitoring on supercomputers by implementing function-level monitoring through dynamic binary instrumentation...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $107,165 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Clemson University. The grant will fund a 2-year collaborative research project titled "Exascale Supercomputing: Tracing the Socio-Technical Alliances that Enable Big Science". The research aims to increase public understanding of supercomputing infrastructure and operations by conducting on-site and remote observational and interview...
This $127,658 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to develop new computational approaches for accelerator design flows that enable more capable autonomous systems, such as robots. The key objectives are: (1) creating a library of hardware design flows for motion planning computations; (2) establishing representations and interfaces to encode real-world parameters and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $249,998 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The grant supports research and development of the "EASER" paradigm - a framework for dealing with extreme heterogeneity in high-performance computing systems. Key components include: 1) compiler-driven performance prediction models, 2) an integrated job scheduling and...
This one-year, $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, will support research into real-time strategies and synchronized time distribution mechanisms to improve exascale performance, portability, and predictability in high performance computing. The grantee, Trustees of Boston University, will conduct five tasks: demonstrating accurate clock distribution by augmenting existing HPC networks; applying synchrony to simplify software/system support stacks; devising mechanisms to model, measure and validate proposed methods; investigating benefits for various application classes; and demonstrating efficacy through a production application case study. The goal is to determine if added synchronization through accurate clocks enables significant computational resource efficiency improvements for large-scale computations.