This $324,275 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of a scalable and deployable container orchestration cyberinfrastructure toolkit. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will receive the funding to create a lightweight tool for detecting inter-container correlations in containerized big data analytics applications deployed in public clouds. Researchers will also develop a scalable...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, provides $509,008 to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to develop secure containers specifically tailored for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures. The project aims to address security challenges in HPC environments that commonly employ containers, such as insecure container images and vulnerabilities related to isolation. The...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on developing consolidated data plane management tools for network functions (NFs). The project aims to design efficient algorithms and data structures to automatically manage the deployment and resource usage of multiple co-existing NFs, which are crucial for managing...
This $299,968 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in enabling large-scale research projects on the NVIDIA DGX cloud platform. The award aims to assist NAIRR pilot researchers with onboarding, porting workflows, user management, cluster management, software installation, profiling, performance tuning, and data movement...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to design and implement a novel container-based approach for sharing and reproducing scientific results. The $126,492 award will develop an open-source container runtime that offers primitives for enabling re-runnability, extensibility, and publish-ability of containers. This will help address the lack of sufficient capture and...
This Project Grant award of $287,308, issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program, supports research on a new data center architecture called "resource disaggregation." The project aims to leverage application-level semantics, such as memory access patterns and data object ownership, to improve the cost-efficiency and performance of resource disaggregation in cloud and data center...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,659 Project Grant to Auburn University under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program. The grant will fund a 3-year research project to investigate techniques for enhancing the resilience of container orchestration systems, which are critical for rapidly deploying software to customers. The research aims to develop new methods for the resilient provisioning of deployment units, as well as resilient traffic routing between these...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the University of California, Davis to address security vulnerabilities in cloud computing infrastructure and develop defenses against targeted microarchitectural attacks. Over a four-year period from July 2022 to June 2026, the university will conduct a comprehensive threat analysis of cloud schedulers and investigate software-based and...
This $750,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support the development of the CyberShuttle framework. CyberShuttle aims to create a seamless, secure, and highly usable scientific research environment that integrates computational science and engineering resources across local systems, university computing centers, cloud infrastructures, and national supercomputing facilities. Led by the University...
This $249,224 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) on October 15, 2023, supports research at the University of Arizona aimed at advancing the field of cloud-native software design and evolution management. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2.5-year project include: Developing a comprehensive system representation and analysis framework to enable holistic reasoning about the evolution of...