This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $312,066, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to Florida International University (FIU). The award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2028, will support the "DISCO: Disciplined Data Science Framework for Storage I/O Management" research project. This project aims to pioneer a comprehensive data science...
This Project Grant award of $296,664 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at Northern Arizona University (NAU) to develop efficient indexing and similarity search algorithms that leverage processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures for data-intensive scientific workloads. The key objectives are to design PIM-aware data structures and algorithms for range, similarity, and nearest neighbor searches...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, provides $530,704 to Florida International University (FIU) to conduct research on improving tiered memory management in in-memory databases and analytic frameworks using machine learning. The key objectives are to: (1) design new tiered memory management techniques that leverage machine learning to optimize performance, quality of service, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $109,594 CAREER grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The project aims to facilitate the paradigm shift from compute-centric to memory-centric computing systems, enabling efficient and secure data processing for data-intensive applications like machine learning and genomics. Key activities include co-designing the computing...
This $303,328 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to develop efficient indexing and similarity search algorithms that leverage processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures. The project aims to address challenges of processing large scientific datasets, which are often memory-bound, by designing PIM-aware data structures and algorithms for range searches, similarity searches, and...
This $218,147 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop a new computing paradigm for leveraging memory fabrics in rack-scale data center systems. The project has three key thrusts: Classifying remote memory nodes and developing a benchmarking framework to characterize their performance, along with an active remote memory system that transparently and dynamically moves memory objects to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $243,087 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University. The grant supports research to develop powerful, dynamic compressed indexes capable of efficiently handling a versatile set of queries and data representations for highly compressible datasets like DNA collections. Key goals include...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Project Grant, with a total award of $135,177, supports research into the design of scalable computing infrastructure that leverages non-volatile memory (NVM) devices for both storage and computation. The project investigates the use of parallel current flows through NVM crossbars for fast and energy-efficient in-memory digital computations, and novel automated synthesis techniques to...
This $550,000 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a hybrid, scalable data management system to improve access to scientific knowledge in data science. The project aims to create an intelligent, user-friendly interface that can extract, organize, and provide deep access to relevant concepts from peer-reviewed scientific literature. Key objectives include: Building a comprehensive knowledge...
This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to develop parallel and cache-efficient data structures. The project aims to address challenges related to software efficiency and scalability on modern high-performance computing systems, focusing on techniques to improve parallelism and I/O-efficiency. Key products and services to be delivered include: Incorporating...
This $109,479 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research at Florida International University (FIU) on efficient in-storage indexing (ISID) methods. The project aims to address key challenges in ISID design, including developing new ISID models, calibration techniques, index manager emulation, and reconfigurable indexing architectures. The research will explore methods to improve data access performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of ISID systems used in modern technologies like search engines, big data analytics, and databases. This award will share the research findings with undergraduate and graduate students, especially those from underrepresented groups, to promote advancements in storage system technology. The work will be conducted at FIU from July 2024 to June 2029.