This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $300,000 supports research at Northwestern University from January 2023 to December 2025 to accelerate serverless cloud network performance. The grant is funded through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. Specifically, the university researchers will develop a cross-layered approach to optimize function chain communication in serverless cloud environments. This includes a new QUIC-based network substrate to improve...
This $545,875 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will support transformative research on sustainable serverless computing. The key objectives are to: Model the performance and environmental impact of serverless computing in cloud data centers, including carbon footprint and water usage. Develop enhancements to the serverless computing encapsulation layer to address performance bottlenecks while...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering" (47.070). The grant supports the development of a next-generation serverless edge computing engine that enables distributed edge applications like data analytics, edge AI, and media streaming to run efficiently at the edge through the...
This $505,916 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at the University of Delaware to develop novel performance testing frameworks for serverless cloud computing applications. The grant aims to address the lack of tools to accurately determine performance for serverless cloud deployments. Over three years, researchers will design correlation-aware statistical techniques including clustered-block bootstrap...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $600,000 to Stony Brook University to develop a high-performance serverless edge computing framework for data-intensive applications. The university will conduct interrelated research tasks to address challenges in building this framework at the network edge, including developing a...
This $658,668 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of novel performance testing frameworks for serverless cloud computing applications. The University of Texas at San Antonio will receive funding over three years from June 2022 to May 2025 to address the lack of tools for accurately determining the performance of serverless cloud deployments. The awardee will design correlation-aware,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $544,061 Project Grant to the International Computer Science Institute under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The grant will support research to develop an extensible Internet architecture through interposition at the network layer. The grantee will insert a new layer between the network and transport...
This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports collaborative research on Application Defined Networking (ADN) for cloud computing. The objective is to enable high-performance and efficient communication between microservices in cloud applications by allowing developers to specify communication needs at a high level, which can then be automatically optimized and implemented...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $788,297 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a security-centric, intelligent approach to resource management for serverless computing platforms. The project aims to enhance cybersecurity research and education by addressing security concerns in cloud-based, serverless computing architectures. Key research...
This $599,851 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE, CFDA 47.070) program supports the development of an end-to-end software system architecture for latency-sensitive situation awareness applications using the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigm on geo-distributed edge infrastructure. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Programming idioms and runtime machinery to ensure spatial and...