This $324,275 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund the development of a scalable and deployable container orchestration cyberinfrastructure toolkit. The University of California Santa Cruz will receive funding to create a lightweight tool to detect inter-container correlations for containerized big data analytics applications without intrusion. A...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant award of $509,008, with a period of performance from October 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, is funding research to develop secure container technologies for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures. The key products and services being delivered under this grant include: 1) the design of an efficient image vulnerability scanner using techniques such as graph neural networks and...
This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research into automated refactoring techniques for distributed software systems. Led by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the one-year project will investigate the feasibility and scope of applying semantics-preserving program transformations to restructure distributed applications for improved performance, modularity, and other attributes. As...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,659 Project Grant to Auburn University under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program. The grant will fund a 3-year research project to investigate techniques for enhancing the resilience of container orchestration systems, which are critical for rapidly deploying software to customers. The research aims to develop new methods for the resilient provisioning of deployment units, as well as resilient traffic routing between these...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) received a $195,938 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NG4S: A NEXT-GENERATION GEO-DISTRIBUTED SCALABLE STATEFUL STREAM PROCESSING SYSTEM." The award period is from February 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023. The grant supports Virginia Tech's research efforts under the Computer and Information Science...
This $1,110,355.00 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Federal Grant Program, supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to investigate how algorithmic techniques can be used for fair and trustworthy allocation of scarce societal resources. The project aims to develop innovative approaches for deploying scarce resources like social services and...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant will support collaborative research examining how to balance predictability and security in the design of time-sensitive cyber-physical systems (CPS). The NSF's Computer and Information Science...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $420,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: MEDIUM:HARDLAMBDA: A NEW FAAS ABSTRACTION FOR CROSS-STACK RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN DISAGGREGATED DATACENTERS" from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. The grant supports Virginia Tech's investigator-initiated research under the NSF's Computer and...
This $600,000 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 new, resource-efficient "REITOS" cyberinfrastructure platform for interactive machine learning training workloads using notebook computing environments. The key goals of the project are to: (1) create distributed notebook algorithms for high availability and interactivity, (2) enable more efficient GPU...
This $900,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will fund research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University to develop a comprehensive framework for efficient, scalable, and performance-portable tensor applications. The five-year award beginning July 2022 aims to address challenges in sustaining improved computing performance and developer productivity as hardware customization increases due...