This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $349,611 to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation to conduct collaborative research aimed at transforming integrated electro-photonic fabrics for light-speed communication and computation. The overarching goal is to extend the operational lifespan and co-reduce the embodied and use-phase costs of emerging heterogeneous integrated...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) of $235,107 will support a 5-year research project at the University of Kentucky Research Foundation focused on developing sustainable computing platforms using carbon-efficient integrated electro-photonic hardware components. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: (1) a framework for modeling the embodied and use-phase carbon...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $1,000,000 to Ohio University to research and develop multi-functional, self-healing, and cross-layer optimized electro-optic fabrics for sustainable computing systems. The overarching goal is to enhance the sustainability of computing through reduced embodied energy and extended hardware lifetime. Key objectives include: (1) novel electrical...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) grant (CFDA 47.070) awarded to George Washington University (GWU) provides $424,291 over 4 years to research the development of a novel dual-purpose photonic fabric that can enable both power-efficient on-chip data communications and high-performance neural network acceleration for future heterogeneous chiplet-based computing architectures. The key objectives are to: (1) provide high-bandwidth and...
This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will fund research by George Washington University (GWU) to design and develop multi-functional, self-healing, and cross-layer optimized electro-optic fabric for computing architectures and accelerators. The overarching goal is to enhance the sustainability of computing systems by reducing embodied energy and extending the operational lifetime of...
This Project Grant award of $447,691 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports research to develop a novel dual-purpose photonic fabric for high-performance, energy-efficient, and scalable heterogeneous chiplet-based architectures. The key objectives of the research are to: (1) enable power-efficient and scalable on-chip communications between cores and accelerators,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program grant (CFDA 47.070) provides $172,848 to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines to investigate fundamental design trade-offs in a retro-reflective uplink enabled integrated sensing and communication with optical wireless (ISAC-OW) system for large-scale networks. The project will develop a cross-domain framework for the integrated design of efficient and scalable retro-reflective...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to Colorado State University. This two-year planning effort aims to develop an inclusive vision for sustainable high-performance computing (HPC) at the university to support data-driven knowledge discovery. The award will fund campus workshops and planning sessions to foster stakeholder engagement, broaden participation in data-intensive...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $204,100 to the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) to conduct research focused on improving the sustainability and performance of computer systems. The key research objectives are: 1) Architecting a flash memory-based solid-state drive that supports differentiated performance, 2) Rethinking file system policies to enable implicit...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $599,996 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to enhance the understanding of physical models of optical elements and fiber systems, and improve optical networking technologies. The key goals are to: (1) implement optical phase conjugators in a field testbed and incorporate the physical layer model into network simulation; (2) implement...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) grant program provides $250,000 to Colorado State University (CSU) from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028 to conduct research on transforming integrated electro-photonic fabrics for light-speed communication and computation.
The key objectives are to: 1) analyze variations and aging-aware footprints of integrated electro-photonic platforms, 2) prolong the carbon-minimum lifespan and co-optimize embodied and operational metrics, and 3) introduce reuse and hardware polymorphism to reduce costs for multifunctional computing, communication, and storage components in these platforms. The overarching goal is to extend the operational lifespan and reduce the embodied and use-phase costs of emerging heterogeneous integrated electro-photonic-based 2.5D computing platforms. This research aims to help overcome the performance limitations of current electronic systems and enable the development of more efficient, reliable, and sustainable smart computing platforms across applications like datacenters, scientific computing, and edge systems.