This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $300,000 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports collaborative research on learning fault tolerance at scale from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. Vanderbilt University is the primary awardee and will receive $300,000 to advance the development of state-of-the-art fault tolerance algorithms and deepen theoretical understanding of the problem. The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc....
The University of Illinois was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems. The grant falls under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. The three-year grant will fund research titled "A New Framework for Building Fail-Slow Fault-Tolerant Distributed...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) totaling $580,736 will support research into improving the performance of distributed storage systems without requiring changes to their codebase. The key objectives are to understand the impact of request ordering on the performance of concurrency control and replication, which are critical components of distributed storage systems, and develop novel...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $592,937 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Utah. The grant supports the development of cache-coherent accelerators to efficiently support persistent memory programming. The proposed approach aims to enable existing software to benefit from faster persistent memory storage without requiring changes to the code, while also providing safety during system crashes and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $204,100 to the University of Nebraska at Omaha aims to advance computer systems and hardware-software optimizations. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year project include: Developing a flash memory-based solid-state drive (SSD) that supports differentiated performance by balancing internal techniques and implementing an address...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $212,345 to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to investigate and mitigate the risks of metastable failures in large distributed software systems, such as cloud infrastructure. The 5-year project, beginning February 1, 2025, aims to study the patterns of metastable failures, design more failure-resistant systems, and develop methods to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $328,017 to develop secure, efficient, and reliable long-term digital data storage systems. The project, led by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Stony Brook University), aims to create archival storage techniques that can protect data against evolving threats, including those posed by quantum computing, and ensure data endures even...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $246,388 to the University of Washington to develop cross-layer file systems that span multiple storage technologies including non-volatile memories, solid-state disks, and traditional disk storage. The university researchers will build file storage systems able to reliably store user data at high...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) totaling $239,150 will support research at Syracuse University to bridge the information gap between computer systems and storage devices. The key objectives are to: 1) architect a flash memory-based solid-state drive that supports differentiated performance, 2) rethink file system policies for implicit differentiation, and 3) create a holistic...
This Project Grant award of $248,301.00 was issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program. The award supports collaborative research to investigate critical technical challenges and develop effective solutions for integrating computational storage capabilities into existing computing ecosystems. The project aims to address issues such as limited resources on device hardware, cost and power...