Project Grant 2551121
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $500,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a complete system stack for automated compute scaling using Compute Express Link (CXL) shared memory. The project delivers four technical tasks. The first establishes fine-grained sharing of individual memory locations with safe synchronization...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $464,384 to the University of California Santa Cruz on April 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), supporting research on secure and efficient AI infrastructure using Compute Express Link (CXL)-enabled disaggregated shared memory. The project develops secure and scalable abstractions and architectural designs for AI infrastructure that enable large-scale...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award, valued at $569,970, will support a research project by Georgia Tech Research Corporation to investigate new memory system architectures enabled by Compute Express Link (CXL) technology. The key objectives are to: Leverage CXL's bandwidth superiority as a potential replacement for conventional DDR-attached memory in bandwidth-constrained systems. Explore...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of California, Davis $600,000 on September 1, 2026, through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for research rethinking the role of CPUs in machine learning systems. The project investigates methods to expand CPU involvement in managing communication, data movement, and memory-intensive operations across artificial intelligence infrastructure, with the...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of California Irvine $344,624 on May 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering CAREER program to develop communication network architecture for ultra-large-scale chiplet-based systems. The project addresses semiconductor industry challenges in designing systems that integrate heterogeneous chiplets to support high-performance compute, neural networks, and large...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $507,378 to the University of California, San Diego on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project addresses efficient execution of applications that interleave operations amenable to hardware acceleration with application-specific logic difficult to offload. The award funds three research thrusts: analysis of how existing applications...
- The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program. The grant supports UCLA's research and development of a new virtual memory abstraction called "Soft Memory" and a Soft Memory Management System called MIDAS. This system enables cloud applications to efficiently utilize memory resources by dynamically provisioning and scaling...
- The University of California, Merced received a $202,709 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funded the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MEMORY FABRIC: DATA MANAGEMENT FOR LARGE-SCALE HYBRID MEMORY SYSTEMS project from May 15, 2021 to January 31, 2022. The project supported investigator-initiated research to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure for enabling and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Virginia. The award supports collaborative research to develop a hardware-software co-design approach for high-performance in-memory analytic data processing, addressing challenges in analyzing large volumes of data. The research focuses on designing...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded $424,076 to the University of California Santa Cruz on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for a five-year CAREER project on analog memory leaks and remanence side-channel vulnerabilities in compute-in-memory hardware. The project develops guidelines and mitigations for security vulnerabilities in analog computing systems used in next-generation...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of California Irvine $500,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a complete system stack enabling automated compute scaling across cloud computing infrastructure using Compute Express Link (CXL) shared memory. The project spans four technical tasks. The first delivers fine-grained sharing of individual memory locations with safe synchronization abstractions. The second creates compiler and runtime support to migrate program objects dynamically across different memory regions. The third adds transparent page-based memory sharing in the operating system so that unmodified applications scale automatically. The fourth builds a dynamic analysis tool to detect coherence errors in software relying on software-coherent memory. The work addresses a core challenge in cloud computing: enabling existing single-machine programs to run across many servers without rewriting, which improves server utilization, reduces hardware overprovisioning, and lowers data center operating costs. The period of performance runs from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2030. Work is performed in Irvine, California.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $500.0k | 7/29/26 |