The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University on August 15, 2023 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant will fund the establishment of a 30 petabyte (PB) campus-wide research data storage facility at Johns Hopkins. This high-performance storage system will support a wide range of scientific research projects at the university, including large numerical simulations and microscopy data....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $489,239 Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program grant to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to develop cost-effective, high-throughput data storage solutions to support scientific research across disciplines including physics, astronomy, biology, and materials science. The 2-year project, titled "CC* DATA STORAGE: COST-EFFECTIVE ATTACHED STORAGE FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT COMPUTING USING...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $206,043 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to William Marsh Rice University in Houston, Texas. The grant funds the Rice Collaborative Object Store, which provides production-level data storage, access, and transfer services to support computationally intensive research across fields like modeling and simulation, AI/machine learning, geospatial analysis, and bioengineering. The new...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund research to reimagine the application interfaces used for large-scale distributed data storage systems in datacenters. The goal is to develop new "declarative" I/O interfaces and orchestration approaches that allow programmers to express larger data access plans, enabling the storage system to coordinate, coalesce, and schedule...
This two-year, $498,202 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides the American Museum of Natural History major expansion of its data storage and management capabilities. Specifically, the Museum is acquiring over 2 petabytes of centralized storage using Open Storage Network pods connected to its Science DMZ high-performance network. This significantly...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation. This 5-year grant, effective July 1, 2025, will develop scalable software to enable "data polymorphism" - a novel paradigm that allows for variable data representations to enable fast and adaptable scientific data retrieval with reduced data movement costs. The project...
This $594,124 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), will fund a research project at North Carolina State University to develop new computational approaches, chemistries, and wet lab experiments to understand and leverage weak molecular interactions in DNA-based data storage systems. The goal is to enable scaling up DNA data storage to practical applications by overcoming...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Notre Dame a $500,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the NDSTORE data storage project from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024.
NDSTORE will provide the University of Notre Dame with 2 petabytes of additional storage capacity for long-term data preservation and curation as well as 250 terabytes of fast scratch storage optimized for machine...
This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure will support the design of a regional Science DMZ for small colleges and universities in Pennsylvania. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award recipient Keystone Initiative For Network Based Education & Research (d.b.a. Kinber) will work with Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Lafayette College, and Lehigh Carbon Community...
This $248,301 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research and development to enable and integrate computational storage capabilities into computing systems. The project aims to address key technical challenges in this area, such as optimizing system-level resource utilization, mitigating memory resource contention, and adapting applications to leverage heterogeneous computing...