Cooperative Agreement DESC0021831

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program project grant, awarded to Purdue University for $600,000 on December 1, 2023, aims to improve the security and efficiency of secure multi-party computation (MPC) technology. MPC enables computations on private data without revealing non-essential information, facilitating collaboration in social, scientific, commercial, and security domains while maintaining privacy. The project will build a...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $400,000 to support research activities focused on improving the efficiency of secure multi-party computation (MPC) techniques. Specifically, the award funds a research collaboration led by Georgia Tech Research Corporation from April 2023 to March 2027 to explore and implement novel...

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...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $5,100,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Institute for Market Transformation Inc. (IMT), a non-profit organization, under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117). The objective of this project is to address compliance challenges with building performance standards (BPS) and similar...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) provides $3,872,767 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop, integrate, and demonstrate a stochastic, decentralized AC unit commitment and optimal power flow system that supports secure operation of bulk electricity grids with high penetrations of inverter-based resources. The key objectives...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $225,000 project grant to Ecco International Inc. to support work under the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3. The goal of the award is to enhance industry-standard tools for alternating current optimal unit commitment through Ecco International's "LLGOMAX: Enhancing Industry-Standard Tools for AC Optimal Unit Commitment" project. Specifically, Ecco International will partner with...

This $450,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) aims to transform the process of designing computer hardware through a novel approach to electronic design automation (EDA). The research project at Cornell University will develop differentiable hardware synthesis techniques that combine formal methods, machine learning, and parallel computing to optimize circuit design in a faster, less...

This three-year, $599,939 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a hardware/software codesign framework for dynamically composing disaggregated hardware systems securely. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the work aims to address system security and performance challenges to make disaggregated computing practical. Key products include a virtualized remote memory architecture, object-level data tracking for efficient...

Euclid Techlabs, LLC was awarded a $206,304 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to support machine-aided cleanroom assembly of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) structures through March 27, 2022. The award was funded through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Specifically,...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) has awarded a $550,000 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to expand the Wind Energy with Integrated Servo-Control (WEIS) toolset. The WEIS model, developed under a previous phase, is a revolutionary open-source tool that enables controls co-design optimization of conventional and innovative, cost-effective floating offshore wind turbines. The purpose of this award is to...