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,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) totaling $580,736 will support research into improving the performance of distributed storage systems without requiring changes to their codebase. The key objectives are to understand the impact of request ordering on the performance of concurrency control and replication, which are critical components of distributed storage systems, and develop novel...
This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $204,100.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program. The goal of this 5-year research project, titled "CAREER: TOWARD SCALABLE WIDE AREA NETWORK-ENABLED GEO-DISTRIBUTED DATA ANALYTICS", is to develop novel techniques for improving the sustainability and performance of computer systems, particularly the memory and...
This $540,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop scalable, automated software infrastructure to enable the deployment and benefits of Computational Storage Devices (CSDs) across critical High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. The project focuses on five integrated research thrusts: 1) characterizing HPC workloads to identify CSD offload opportunities, 2) exposing CSD...
The University of Washington will receive $500,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program to develop a novel central data storage, curation, and sharing platform. This two-year project grant will support the creation of a scalable, elastic, low-latency data storage framework to enable interdisciplinary big data research across materials science, particle physics, environmental science, medicine, and health...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $273,001 federal Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Illinois to develop novel fault-tolerance protocols and storage abstractions for improving the performance of fault-tolerant storage systems. The 5-year project aims to enable the construction of reliable and high-performing storage systems that can support critical applications in modern datacenters without...
This $783,402 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) will enable research at Carnegie Mellon University to reimagine the application interfaces used for data center storage. The goal is to develop new "declarative" I/O interfaces and orchestration approaches that allow programmers to express larger data access plans, enabling the storage system to coordinate,...
This $248,301 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research and development to enable computational storage systems. The project aims to address critical challenges in integrating computational storage capabilities into existing computing ecosystems, including optimizing system-level resource utilization, leveraging proximity and mitigating memory contention in device...
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 National Science Foundation Project Grant of $600,000 supports research to improve the performance of database management systems that use log structured merge tree storage technology. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award will support development of novel data organization and flow patterns within log structured merge tree storage to boost read and write capabilities. Key activities include designing algorithms to store...