Project Grant DESC0017115

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program provides $250,000 to the College of William and Mary to support research and education activities under the EASER framework from June 2022 through May 2025. The award will fund the development of an integrated paradigm for application execution on heterogeneous high-performance computing clusters. Key products and services include compiler-driven performance prediction models, an...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $300,000 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop innovative checkpointing technologies for scientific applications. The VLCC-STATES project aims to streamline the use of checkpointing patterns, which are critical capabilities enabling resilience, reproducibility, and performance optimization for a wide range of scientific...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program award provides $599,386 to Northeastern University to conduct research on communication-aware algorithms for dynamic allocation of heterogeneous computing resources in distributed infrastructure systems. The key products delivered under this 3-year project grant include: Innovative solutions for scheduling large-scale, precedence-constrained computations such as Artificial Intelligence tasks...

This Project Grant award of $289,136.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of a scalable and extensible I/O runtime and tools for next-generation adaptive data layouts. The research aims to create a comprehensive data management solution that can address the data movement challenges posed by exascale computing. Key deliverables include: A scalable and tunable parallel I/O runtime that enables...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop strategies for efficiently leveraging idle resources in high-performance computing (HPC) systems to accelerate large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The key objectives are to: 1) analyze patterns of idle resources in HPC environments, 2) develop methods to safely and rapidly harvest these idle resources, and...

This Project Grant award of $224,984 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia focused on developing automated checkpoint and restart capabilities for deep learning applications running on high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) exploit properties of deep neural network models to...

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) received a $4.405 million Cooperative Agreement award from the Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), administered under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), with an award date of July 14, 2025, and a completion date of July 13, 2030. The award supports research and development of novel polymeric materials, their applications, and scale-up for manufacturing activities, conducted at RIT's Rochester, New York facility. The...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $500,000 cooperative agreement from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Sciences Office, under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910). The award, effective September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2027, supports the development of a formal and practical compositional co-design framework for complex, adaptive man-machine systems operating in dynamic...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant award, with a funding amount of $604,104.00, supports the development of Simultaneous and Heterogeneous Multithreading (SHMT) technology at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside). The goal is to enable the concurrent use of heterogeneous hardware accelerators in modern computing systems to improve resource utilization, reduce energy consumption, and enhance application...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund research at the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) to develop improved checkpoint and restart capabilities for deep learning applications running on high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. The overarching goal of the $150,000 award is to enable more efficient, resilient, and flexible execution of...