The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program awarded a $299,957 project grant to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to develop a user-interactive approach to water management for sustainable data centers. The 3-year project, which began on Sep 15, 2023, aims to: Create a fair and accurate water accounting system for data centers at both the user and facility levels; Develop a scalable user-interactive resource management approach...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, aims to develop novel techniques and design approaches to minimize the carbon footprint of data centers while increasing the utilization of renewable energy sources on the power grid. Key objectives include: Estimating fine-grained...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, aims to develop innovative solutions to enable carbon-zero colocation data centers that support the booming artificial intelligence industry and digital economy. Specifically, the project proposes to: (1) create a computationally-efficient mechanism to...
This $220,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to develop new mathematical tools and computational methods for designing efficient and fair water markets. The project aims to address challenges in the sustainable and equitable management of groundwater resources, which is critical for climate change adaptation in drought-affected regions. The research will...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop recommendations for effective climate impact reporting at scientific research computing centers. The project will analyze existing proposals and practices for reporting on the environmental damage caused by large-scale research computing, exploring methodologies to assess carbon footprint (embodied, operational, and...
This $2,646,047 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is developing a national integrated watershed evaluation framework to improve water resource management. The framework will bring together diverse hydrologic datasets and provide tools for advanced model evaluation and exploration of watershed conditions. The project, led by Princeton University, will engage a diverse community...
This $747,844 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will develop a cybertraining curriculum focused on climate, water and environmental sustainability. Led by Purdue University, the collaborative project will create three levels of curriculum—foundational, expert, and developer—to train students, educators, and professionals on integrating and analyzing open...
This Project Grant award for $600,000.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), aims to develop a data center control framework that will regulate data center power consumption while providing performance guarantees to users. The project, titled "Flexible Artificial Intelligence Data Centers for Optimized Computing," will focus on three key innovations: (1) designing AI data...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to investigate how new technologies for water resource extraction, such as membrane-based filtration and retrofittable fermenters, can address anticipated challenges of water scarcity and resource insecurity. The project aims to develop conceptual tools for understanding resource extraction in a...
This $1,143,430 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is developing a National Integrated Watershed Evaluation Framework to improve water resource management across the United States. The University of Arizona is the prime awardee, with no planned sub-awards. The framework will integrate diverse hydrologic datasets, from ground-based observations to remote sensing, to provide a...