The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Office of Research Division (UCF) to conduct research on taming large memory page challenges for memory bulk operations using a hardware/software co-design approach. The goal is to significantly improve the speed and bandwidth of single-level DRAM combined with ultra-low latency, non-volatile...
The University of California, Merced received a $202,709 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funded the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MEMORY FABRIC: DATA MANAGEMENT FOR LARGE-SCALE HYBRID MEMORY SYSTEMS project from May 15, 2021 to January 31, 2022. The project supported investigator-initiated research to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure for enabling and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $229,578 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to develop hardware and software solutions that address key challenges in enabling a new paradigm of in-memory computing. The research project aims to tackle issues related to fragmented memory resources, insufficient architectural support for memory sharing, and the inefficient separation between...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $204,100 to the University of Nebraska at Omaha aims to advance computer systems and hardware-software optimizations. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year project include: Developing a flash memory-based solid-state drive (SSD) that supports differentiated performance by balancing internal techniques and implementing an address...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $390,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop highly efficient bio-inspired edge computing systems. The project aims to leverage internal ionic, electronic, and thermal dynamic processes in emerging devices and networks to directly process spatiotemporal data with high performance, energy efficiency, and reliability. The research will focus on...
This $274,765 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) establishes a foundation for efficient and intelligent unified memory design to harness the power of advanced GPU accelerators. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing an abstraction framework called ACCORD to capture the spatial and temporal patterns of massively parallel memory accesses, enabling quantitative...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Project Grant, with a total award of $135,177, supports research into the design of scalable computing infrastructure that leverages non-volatile memory (NVM) devices for both storage and computation. The project investigates the use of parallel current flows through NVM crossbars for fast and energy-efficient in-memory digital computations, and novel automated synthesis techniques to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, provides $530,704 to Florida International University (FIU) to conduct research on improving tiered memory management in in-memory databases and analytic frameworks using machine learning. The key objectives are to: (1) design new tiered memory management techniques that leverage machine learning to optimize performance, quality of service, and...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program. The grant supports UCLA's research and development of a new virtual memory abstraction called "Soft Memory" and a Soft Memory Management System called MIDAS. This system enables cloud applications to efficiently utilize memory resources by dynamically provisioning and scaling...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $218,147 to the University of Wisconsin System to develop a new computing paradigm that leverages memory fabrics as a first-class resource for instantiating, orchestrating, and reclaiming computations. The 5-year project aims to rethink rack-scale system design from memory, computing, and communication perspectives. Key focus areas include classifying remote...