Project Grant DESC0017152

This two-year, $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support Duke University in developing the Flexible Affordable Scalable Technology for Research Storage system. Commonly known as FAST, this shared research storage system utilizes commodity data center hardware and open source Ceph software to provide flexible, high-performance, and...

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 $296,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program aims to accelerate data-intensive computing through a "Real-Time Smart Data Lake." The awardee, Airmettle Inc., will develop technology to enable large JSON data objects to be processed directly within a software-defined data lake storage solution. This will allow analytic client applications to efficiently retrieve...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to develop a new data representation and storage system called LABIOS to address the challenges of storing and accessing massive and complex data sets in data-intensive computing. The $599,999 award to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) will fund research to design and implement LABIOS, a...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $299,686 will fund the University of Connecticut (UConn) to design efficient tools that automatically manage the algorithm design, deployment and resource management of multiple co-existing network functions (NFs) through a new concept called consolidated data planes. Key objectives include: Developing an automatic tool to construct consolidated data plane...

This $783,402 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) will enable research at Carnegie Mellon University to reimagine the application interfaces used for data center storage. The goal is to develop new "declarative" I/O interfaces and orchestration approaches that allow programmers to express larger data access plans, enabling the storage system to coordinate,...

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 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $246,388 to the University of Washington to develop cross-layer file systems that span multiple storage technologies including non-volatile memories, solid-state disks, and traditional disk storage. The university researchers will build file storage systems able to reliably store user data at high...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on developing consolidated data plane management tools for network functions (NFs). The project aims to design efficient algorithms and data structures to automatically manage the deployment and resource usage of multiple co-existing NFs, which are crucial for managing...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a prototype for a load-balancing switch that uses a weighted-cost multi-path scheme to distribute and load-balance workloads in science data center networks. The project aims to overcome limitations of current software-based load balancers and provide accelerated, high-speed load balancing capabilities using...