Project Grant 2324644
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $1,000,000 to Ohio University to research and develop multi-functional, self-healing, and cross-layer optimized electro-optic fabrics for sustainable computing systems. The overarching goal is to enhance the sustainability of computing through reduced embodied energy and extended hardware lifetime. Key objectives include: (1) novel electrical...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The goal of the 3-year project is to develop an energy-efficient coherent optical interconnect architecture that can enable dramatic increases in datacenter and high-performance computing bandwidth-density and energy-efficiency. The key technical innovations...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $375,000 Project Grant to George Washington University (The) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct collaborative research on developing a cross-layer, machine learning-based, energy-efficient and resilient Network-on-Chip (NoC) design for multicore systems. The 3-year project aims to advance the understanding of the interactions between the NoC and other chip components, as well as optimize...
- The National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program awarded $250,000.00 to Colorado State University on July 1, 2025 for a 3-year collaborative research project titled "Transforming Integrated Electro-Photonic Fabrics for Light Speed Communication and Computation." This Project Grant aims to develop efficient, sustainable integrated electro-photonic computing platforms that can surpass traditional electronic systems in...
- This $540,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a new family of tunable optical network architectures for high-performance, energy-efficient, and sustainable cloud computing infrastructure. The project aims to design resilient and flexible network structures, optimize network utilization algorithms, and develop performance benchmarking methodologies for these...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $584,714 project grant to the George Washington University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support research on expeditious computing from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The project aims to develop a holistic framework called "expedient computing" to balance the timeliness, accuracy, and freshness of results against the energy consumed in processing large volumes of data from sensor...
- This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) funds the development of an innovative computational electromagnetics (CEM) framework that leverages physics-informed artificial intelligence (AI) models. The project aims to enhance the analysis and design of on-chip optical interconnects, which are crucial for achieving ultra-high bandwidth and speeds in modern computing...
- This Project Grant award, titled "CAREER: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING WITH CARBON-EFFICIENT INTEGRATED ELECTRO-PHOTONIC FABRICS", was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The $235,107 award will support research by the University of Kentucky Research Foundation to investigate the use of carbon-efficient integrated electro-photonic hardware fabrics for sustainable...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $236,260 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at The George Washington University to develop critical enablers for future programmable converged wireless-optical networks capable of supporting beyond 5G/6G applications. Specifically, the University researchers will work to design resilient fronthaul architectures using novel power-over-fiber technology; develop automatic edge cloud management and...
- This Project Grant award of $500,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Maryland, College Park will explore a new class of low-loss phase change materials to control light propagation and enable "synthetic dimensions" for advanced optical information processing and computing. The project aims to develop reconfigurable modal control and topological nanophotonics for next-generation communications and quantum computing...
This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will fund research by George Washington University (GWU) to design and develop multi-functional, self-healing, and cross-layer optimized electro-optic fabric for computing architectures and accelerators. The overarching goal is to enhance the sustainability of computing systems by reducing embodied energy and extending the operational lifetime of hardware. Key deliverables include novel electrical and photonic interconnect-based architectures with multiple functionalities for communication, computation, and storage; self-healing and fault-tolerant electrical and optical fabric to improve reliability; and hardware and cross-layer techniques to dynamically adapt to application demands and reduce operational energy. The project will also produce a simulation framework to evaluate embodied and operational energy, along with a proof-of-concept testbed implementation. This award aligns with NSF's CISE program mission to advance scientific knowledge and innovative computing technologies with societal and economic benefits.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.0m | 9/7/23 |