The University of Maryland, College Park will receive $596,438 from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for a project grant awarded on June 15, 2022 and set to be completed by May 31, 2025.
The funding will support the development of new algorithms and frameworks for massively parallel computation to address the growing challenges of modern computing environments involving networked multicore processors and large-scale distributed systems. Specific areas of focus include designing efficient algorithms for core problems in the practical massively parallel computation model to reduce communication rounds and optimize tradeoffs between resources. The researchers will also develop dynamic algorithms for massively parallel applications and augment parallel architectures with improved data structures and abstractions. Discoveries will be integrated into courses and literature on parallel, distributed and big data foundations to train future researchers.