Project Grant 2229704

This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will fund the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's development of an open-source ecosystem for OpenCilk, a task-parallel programming platform for multicore computers. The goal is to establish an academic user and contributor base for OpenCilk by focusing outbound networking, inbound engagement, and peer collaboration strategies on academic researchers, educators, and students. Subawards of $50,000 each to Georgia Tech Research Corporation and Washington University will support related computing performance improvement research. Successful completion of this project by August 31, 2023 could help expand OpenCilk adoption beyond academia by enabling a newly created performance engineering community to advance national strategic priorities like machine learning and cybersecurity.