This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $540,000 to The Pennsylvania State University to develop a scalable, automated software infrastructure for computational storage devices (CSDs) used in high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The project aims to create compiler-directed optimizations, a runtime system, and simulation tools to enable more intelligent orchestration of heterogeneous...
This federal Project Grant award of $341,502 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CSR: MEDIUM: DISCO: DISCIPLINED DATA SCIENCE FRAMEWORK FOR STORAGE I/O MANAGEMENT" project at the University of Chicago. The project aims to develop a comprehensive data science pipeline to enhance storage input/output (I/O) decision-making processes, targeting both classical...
This $1,139,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop innovative dataflow processors that can enhance the energy efficiency and security of edge computing systems. The key technical innovations include a parallel dataflow representation of programs and a simplified, scalable spatial architecture for dataflow processors. The research will be conducted by a diverse team at...
This $189,426 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research at Marquette University to design and implement novel computational storage device-based methods for accelerating large-scale data analysis tasks. The project aims to develop indexing data structures, programming frameworks, and algorithms optimized for computational storage devices to enable efficient range queries, similarity searches,...
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...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded Rutgers, The State University a $591,363 Project Grant under the CFDA Program 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering. The grant will fund a 3-year research project to redesign input/output (I/O) software to better leverage heterogeneous storage and memory technologies. Key objectives include disaggregating monolithic I/O stacks, developing abstractions to enable intelligent data placement,...
This Project Grant award of $248,301 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports collaborative research to address critical challenges in advancing computational storage technologies. The project aims to develop innovative solutions that integrate computational storage capabilities into existing computing ecosystems, such as designing service-oriented abstractions, optimizing system-level resource utilization, and adapting...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $273,001 federal Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Illinois to develop novel fault-tolerance protocols and storage abstractions for improving the performance of fault-tolerant storage systems. The 5-year project aims to enable the construction of reliable and high-performing storage systems that can support critical applications in modern datacenters without...
This $299,687 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support the development of scalable and extensible I/O runtime and tools for next generation adaptive data layouts at Utah State University from July 2022 through June 2025. Specifically, the university will create a parallel I/O runtime to support progressive read/write operations using hierarchical, compressed, and tunable adaptive data layouts suitable...