Project Grant 2426162

Award Date 10/1/24
Completion Date 9/30/27
Dollars Obligated $281K
Federal Grant Program
47.070
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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This $281,385 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of advanced software developer tools to enable the use of heterogeneous computing hardware, including graphics processing units (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The goal is to lower the barriers for software engineers with varying levels of hardware expertise to leverage emerging heterogeneous architectures for computing and artificial intelligence acceleration.

The key innovative components of this 3-year project include:

  1. Efficient program transformation and interactive design exploration methods to port classical CPU-targeted software to optimized heterogeneous versions.
  2. New automated testing methods for heterogeneous applications using hardware-level probes and adapted existing tests.
  3. Automated debugging techniques for source code tracing and root cause analysis throughout the hardware compilation process.

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is the primary grantee and will deliver this suite of advanced open-source debugging and testing tools to enable broader utilization of hardware heterogeneity. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.

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