Project Grant 2443203

Award Date 7/1/25
Completion Date 6/30/30
Dollars Obligated $370K
Federal Grant Program
47.070
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Austin, TX 78712, USA
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  1. Novel abstractions and runtime resource management approaches optimized for NIC architectures and streaming workloads.
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