The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $341,545 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to develop new approaches for managing partially broken computing equipment to extend their lifetimes and reduce e-waste. The 3-year project aims to enable the continued use of computing devices that would otherwise be discarded when only partially broken, thereby reducing the need for new...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $249,957 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Florida (UF) for the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DESC: TYPE 1: SOFTWARE-HARDWARE RECYCLING AND REPAIR DATASET INFRASTRUCTURE (SHREDI) FOR SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING" project. This 3-year collaborative effort aims to enhance electronic waste (e-waste) recovery by transforming electronics design practices and optimizing e-waste...
This $1,500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research at the University of Pittsburgh to develop sustainable computing solutions by recycling and reintegrating decommissioned computer chips. The project aims to minimize the environmental impact of computing systems across their lifecycle, including manufacturing, usage, and disposal. The key technical approaches involve creating...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $522,995 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Pittsburgh to develop novel lifespan-aware strategies for reducing carbon emissions from distributed computing infrastructures. The project aims to design a "lifetime management system" that incorporates principles of "safe computing" to maintain the longevity of computing systems while minimizing their...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the University of Notre Dame a $500,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DESC: TYPE II: REFRESH: REVISITING EXPANDING FPGA REAL-ESTATE FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABILITY HETEROGENEOUS-SYSTEMS," aims to develop innovative approaches to minimize the environmental impact of...
This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at the Rochester Institute of Technology towards developing a methodology for designing sustainable software systems. Over the one-year period from September 2022 to August 2023, the researchers will conduct an empirical study of software applications in sustainability-relevant...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $299,994 to Clemson University's Division of Research is focused on developing a framework for sustainable revitalization of computing systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions during industry expansion. The project aims to establish robust methods for optimizing the migration and lifecycle management of smart computing devices in order to minimize their...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $328,017 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (Stony Brook University) to develop secure, efficient, and reliable long-term archival storage systems for digital information. The project aims to create techniques to store data securely for decades, protecting against malicious access and hardware/software failures, while balancing...
This $235,107 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research on sustainable computing with carbon-efficient integrated electro-photonic fabrics. The key products and services to be delivered include: A framework for modeling the embodied and use-phase carbon footprints of electro-photonic transceivers and accelerators, considering factors like yield, fabrication variations, and...
This National Science Foundation award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $300,000 to Cornell University from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025 to develop shared community infrastructure and tools for quantifying the carbon footprint of computing platforms across their entire lifecycles. The project aims to create models and simulators that can assess the environmental impact of hardware manufacturing, operational power/energy usage, and...