This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $218,147 to the University of Wisconsin System to develop a new computing paradigm that leverages memory fabrics as a first-class resource for instantiating, orchestrating, and reclaiming computations. The 5-year project aims to rethink rack-scale system design from memory, computing, and communication perspectives. Key focus areas include classifying remote...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $229,578 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to develop hardware and software solutions that address key challenges in enabling a new paradigm of in-memory computing. The research project aims to tackle issues related to fragmented memory resources, insufficient architectural support for memory sharing, and the inefficient separation between...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $215,908 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, Riverside under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a comprehensive memory management ecosystem called MEMDRIVE. The project aims to optimize memory usage throughout the application and system stack for resource-constrained embedded systems, addressing the "memory wall" problem that limits performance and...
This $172,156 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, supports fundamental research to address critical challenges in enabling memory-centric computing for future data-intensive applications. The project, led by the Trustees of Indiana University, aims to develop advanced hardware functionalities, optimize memory resource utilization, and integrate hardware support into programming platforms to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $592,937 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Utah. The grant supports the development of cache-coherent accelerators to efficiently support persistent memory programming. The proposed approach aims to enable existing software to benefit from faster persistent memory storage without requiring changes to the code, while also providing safety during system crashes and...
The University of California, Merced received a $202,709 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funded the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MEMORY FABRIC: DATA MANAGEMENT FOR LARGE-SCALE HYBRID MEMORY SYSTEMS project from May 15, 2021 to January 31, 2022. The project supported investigator-initiated research to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure for enabling and...
The National Science Foundation awarded Yale University a $406,081 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research from October 2021 through September 2024 to advance learning techniques for next generation wireless networks. Specifically, the university will conduct work on learning to network the edge in next generation wireless networks. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Project Grant, with a total award of $135,177, supports research into the design of scalable computing infrastructure that leverages non-volatile memory (NVM) devices for both storage and computation. The project investigates the use of parallel current flows through NVM crossbars for fast and energy-efficient in-memory digital computations, and novel automated synthesis techniques to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $157,203 Project Grant to the University of Arizona under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct research related to scaling general-purpose processors into the exascale era. Specifically, the award will fund research to design reconfigurable aggregated virtual chips utilizing heterogeneous aggregated chiplets and a hybrid wireless interconnection network. This is intended to enable systems...
This Project Grant award of $239,150.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The project aims to bridge the information gap between software systems and hardware devices in computer memory and storage technologies. The key objectives are to: (1) architect a flash memory-based solid-state drive that supports differentiated performance, (2) rethink file system policies for implicit differentiation,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Yale University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund development of the Memory at Scale on Networks (MASON) system over four years from October 2022 to September 2026. MASON aims to realize a practical shared-everything architecture for distributed systems through a tightly coupled co-design of a novel operating system and network. By leveraging trends like increased network speeds, new persistent memory technologies, and heterogeneous computing, MASON will explore providing reliable, low-latency access to large pools of remote, disaggregated memory from increasingly distributed and diverse computing environments. Key areas of focus include memory protocols over network fabrics, the role of computation-enhanced networks, and fault-tolerance for persistent memory. Programming models to support disaggregated persistent memory will also be examined. The project's output seeks to enable a radically simpler programming model for building distributed systems handling large datasets across industry, government, and academia.