Project Grant 2615188
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Clemson University $499,999 on September 1, 2026, to develop FLEXSCALE, a system for managing high-performance computing (HPC) facilities under dynamic power availability and variable electricity costs. The award falls under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). FLEXSCALE establishes abstractions, models, and algorithms for coordinating job elasticity, scheduling,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded North Carolina State University $350,000 on August 15, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to design network infrastructures for reliable wide-area control of power systems serving large electronic loads such as AI data centers, crypto mining centers, and high-performance computing centers. The research will develop a massively deployable cyber-physical architecture called the FRELCO...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded North Carolina State University $300,000 on January 1, 2027, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop and deliver workforce training in artificial intelligence-enabled power grid research. The project, titled POWERCYBER: Scalable Workforce Development for AI-Enabled Power Grids, prepares faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students to integrate power...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Washington $300,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a unified modeling, analysis, and control framework for understanding interactions between data centers and electric power systems. The project develops reduced-order models of data-center power-electronic systems to characterize how internal converters, control loops, and energy-storage...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology $350,000 on August 15, 2026, for collaborative research on wide-area control architectures for electric power systems serving large electronic loads including AI data centers, crypto mining centers, and high-performance computing facilities. The project develops optimal control algorithms, termed FRELCO (fast, resilient, load-aware, and cost-optimal), to dampen...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Arizona State University two hundred thousand dollars on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop unified modeling, analysis, and control frameworks for understanding interactions between data center power-electronic systems and the electric grid. The research establishes reduced-order models characterizing how internal power converters, control loops, and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Georgia TECH Research Corp $348,081 on June 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop integrated load and resource management systems for high-utilization datacenters. The project addresses inefficiencies in cloud infrastructure by combining load distribution and resource allocation into a coordinated framework that determines server capacity in...
- The Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded North Carolina State University a $737,518 cooperative agreement on October 1, 2025, under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to develop an operational framework leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to increase operational flexibility of hydropower facilities. The project focuses on quantification of hydropower operational flexibility, optimization of...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded North Carolina State University $268,768 on July 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop methods for efficiently processing irregular data on graphics processing units for artificial intelligence applications. The project addresses computational inefficiencies in current AI frameworks when handling irregular data structures common in large language...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Southern California $300,000 on August 15, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to design network infrastructures for reliable wide-area control of power systems serving large electronic loads such as AI data centers, crypto mining centers, and high-performance computing centers. The award funds development of FRELCO (Fast, Resilient, Load-Aware, Cost-Optimal) grid...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded North Carolina State University $500,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop FLEXSCALE, a dynamic power-steering approach for operating high-performance computing systems under variable power availability and electricity prices. FLEXSCALE establishes abstractions, models, and algorithms for coordinating job elasticity, scheduling, resource allocation, and power control to help HPC centers direct power where most needed and adjust less urgent or flexible work when power is constrained or expensive. The project introduces innovations in workload classification by priority and execution elasticity; fine-grained management of malleable jobs through resource expansion, shrinkage, and power control; application-agnostic power shifting to reduce critical-path execution time while respecting hierarchical power limits; and safe hardware overprovisioning to increase job capacity under existing power budgets. The work evaluates these methods using representative HPC and AI workloads to support more affordable and scalable national cyberinfrastructure by enabling computing centers to perform more scientific and AI computation with existing power infrastructure. Work is performed at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a period of performance through August 31, 2030.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $500.0k | 7/26/26 |