Project Grant 2426368

Award Date 4/1/25
Completion Date 3/31/28
Dollars Obligated $600K
Federal Grant Program
47.070
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Alafaya, FL 32816, USA
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The key aspects of the three-year project, starting on Apr 1, 2025, include:

  1. Designing a sparsity-aware scheduling system to address data transfer bottlenecks between GPUs and CPUs, prioritizing important data and dynamically managing memory to reduce overhead.
  2. Optimizing AI task scheduling through speculative execution and adaptive memory management for real-world workloads.
  3. Minimizing GPU scheduling delays and cross-layer communication overhead using software-based solutions to improve kernel compilation.

These innovations are expected to significantly reduce inference time, cut costs and energy consumption, and broaden access to AI tools for more people and organizations worldwide.

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