Project Grant DESC0015712

This two-year, $999,970 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure will support the University of Southern California's Center for Advanced Research Computing in building cyberinfrastructure and expanding high-performance computing access and services to under-resourced universities in Southern California. Specifically, the University of Southern California will implement a new high-performance computing system and corresponding user support...

ACE-3D Chip Design Hub Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Chicago has been awarded $825,000 under a Cooperative Agreement effective July 15, 2025, through June 30, 2030, from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CFDA 47.070) to establish the Advanced Chip Design Enablement – 3D (ACE-3D) National Chip Design Hub. This initiative addresses critical gaps in three-dimensional heterogeneously integrated circuits (3D HI) technology by...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded $199,163 to the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation, Inc. under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to organize and execute a one-day community summit in the Washington, DC area in mid-March 2026. The primary deliverable is a facilitated workshop convening academic leaders and representatives alongside industry, philanthropy, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, provided under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), will enable Claremont McKenna College (CMC) and Harvey Mudd College (HMC) to acquire a $918,485 high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. The HPC cluster will support computational research and training across a diverse range of disciplines, including the natural sciences, mathematics, and economics. This multi-year project, with an award date of September 15, 2024 and...

This $1,139,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop innovative dataflow processors that can enhance the energy efficiency and security of edge computing systems. The key technical innovations include a parallel dataflow representation of programs and a simplified, scalable spatial architecture for dataflow processors. The research will be conducted by a diverse team at...

This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to pioneer a computing system for massive AI workloads. The project will develop new architectural and design automation tools for a reconfigurable-on-package system using "tiny chiplets" - miniaturized composable computing components. This innovative approach seeks to address the challenges related to chiplet definition,...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to enhance the ACCORD cyberinfrastructure project at the University of Virginia (UVA). The $600,000 award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026, will fund three key components: (1) a responsive security framework to lower user access barriers, (2) new policies and controls to support data rights, and (3) a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Northwestern University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports the development of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) prototypes that leverage complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuits integrated with voltage-controlled magnetic memory devices to enable probabilistic computing. The key products to be delivered through this 3-year project...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1.2M Project Grant to the University of Virginia under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to enhance the security and privacy of community cyberinfrastructures (CI) for collaborative research. This 3-year project focuses on developing advanced techniques to secure data management and computation within CI systems, including centralized computing, distributed computing, and data computation. The...

The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded Research Triangle Institute $207,699 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the EAGER: Democratizing the Use of Advanced Computational Resources project from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2022. The goal of this Project Grant appears to be advancing the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in...