Project Grant 2324645
- 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...
- This Project Grant award of $447,691 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports research to develop a novel dual-purpose photonic fabric for high-performance, energy-efficient, and scalable heterogeneous chiplet-based architectures. The key objectives of the research are to: (1) enable power-efficient and scalable on-chip communications between cores and accelerators,...
- 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 Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $325,965 to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for research on managing electrical and thermal energy in sustainable computing systems from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. Specifically, the award funds fundamental research to develop methods for understanding, modeling, and...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, CFDA #47.070, provides $600,000 to Duke University to develop a hardware/software co-design framework for sustainable computing systems. The framework aims to generate optimal hardware and algorithm designs that meet constraints of functionality, performance, sustainability, and other requirements. It will guide future sustainable hardware design and establish a holistic...
- This $540,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to address energy efficiency challenges in heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The "BEYOND PERFORMANCE: ENERGY-CONSCIOUS HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING" project develops a holistic framework called ECOHPC that leverages collaborative filtering, multi-objective optimization, and adaptive runtime systems to enable...
- 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 (NSF) awarded a $1,341,906 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Brown University, to be completed by September 30, 2027. The project aims to achieve sustainable computing by recycling and reusing decommissioned field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips to build "refresh FPGA" devices, employing 2.5-dimensional integration with an underlying interposer for interconnection. This approach seeks to...
- 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'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 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 and photonic interconnect-based architectures with multi-functionality for communication, computation, and storage; (2) self-healing and fault-tolerant electrical and optical fabric to improve reliability of heterogeneous computing chiplets; (3) hardware and cross-layer techniques to dynamically adapt to application demands and reduce operational energy; (4) simulation modeling to evaluate embodied and operational energy; and (5) proof-of-concept testbed implementation. All research findings will be disseminated through publications, meetings, and a dedicated website. The project period runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.0m | 9/7/23 |