Project Grant 90NN0008

The University of California, Davis received a $215,805 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on October 1, 2021 to support collaborative research on demand response and workload management for data centers with increased renewable energy penetration. The award is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to foster innovation in engineering research and education. Specifically, the university will...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, aims to develop innovative solutions to enable carbon-zero colocation data centers that support the booming artificial intelligence industry and digital economy. Specifically, the project proposes to: (1) create a computationally-efficient mechanism to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program totaling $187,180 will support research into hybrid switching in data center networks from October 1, 2022 through July 31, 2023. The grant recipient, Princeton University, will develop systems-driven modeling and principled algorithms to address the challenges of fast, dynamic switching capabilities needed to meet rapidly growing and changing traffic demand patterns in...

This Project Grant award of $2,000,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support the "CHIPLETS360: DATACENTER OPTIMIZATION THROUGH WHOLE-STACK NOVEL ACCOUNTING, DESIGN, REUSE, AND HETEROGENEOUS PROVISIONING OF CHIPLETS" research project at the University of Arkansas. The project aims to revolutionize the design of next-generation data centers through novel chiplet and 2.5D integration...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $499,907 to New York University to develop a fast, scalable, distributed cyberinfrastructure across multiple university buildings. The cyberinfrastructure aims to meet the specialized data storage and processing demands of media researchers through (1) large-scale storage, (2) fast, low-latency...

This three-year, $1,458,189 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a community testbed for designing carbon-efficient cloud applications. Administered through the Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, the award advances the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program's goals of expanding computing research infrastructure and innovation. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts will design and deploy a testbed in an edge...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will support a collaborative research project at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside). The project aims to develop a user-interactive approach to water management for sustainable data centers. Key objectives include: Designing a fair and accurate water accounting system to track water footprints at both the user and facility levels....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, provides $611,586 to the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University to build an advanced cyberinfrastructure to support diverse research and educational needs on campus. The funded cyberinfrastructure upgrades the campus research network to 100G capacity, integrates a 100G Science DMZ for improved external connectivity, and establishes a 100G...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, aims to develop novel techniques and design approaches to minimize the carbon footprint of data centers while increasing the utilization of renewable energy sources on the power grid. Key objectives include: Estimating fine-grained...

The University of Hawaii (UH) received a $472,954 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) on August 15, 2023. This award supports upgrades to UH's networking capacity and infrastructure to improve research data transfer throughput and performance at key research locations across the state of Hawaii. Specifically, the project enables 100 Gbps connectivity upgrades at three locations - the Institute for Astronomy, the Pacific...