Federal Project Grant Award Summary

Georgia TECH Research Corp received a $348,081 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), effective June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2031. This CAREER award supports research to develop integrated load and resource management systems for high-utilization datacenters. The project delivers research advances in coordinating resource allocation and load distribution across cloud computing infrastructure, enabling servers to determine optimal workload acceptance within microseconds and distribute incoming requests more efficiently across hardware resources without requiring continuous hardware expansion.

The research is organized around three primary technical thrusts: developing unified mechanisms to track per-request resource usage and enforce admission decisions across shared system bottlenecks; integrating admission control with operating system scheduling to jointly manage application load and resource allocation; and establishing cross-layer coordination abstractions that enhance visibility into application behavior while minimizing performance overhead. These deliverables address the fundamental challenge of inefficient resource utilization in modern cloud services by replacing independent control mechanisms with a coordinated framework that reacts rapidly to dynamic workload changes, ultimately improving cloud service performance and cost-efficiency without proportional increases in hardware investment.