Project Grant DESC0022506

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $300,000 to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) aims to develop principled techniques and tools for testing multi-threaded programs written in managed runtime languages like Java. The project will create a controlled concurrency testing solution that can deterministically control thread scheduling, systematically explore thread schedules to uncover hard-to-find...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports the development of a virtual computational storage system called μ-HDF5. The primary goals are to: 1) create an HDF5-compatible interface with support for various computer kernels, 2) identify, dispatch, and execute compute kernels on faster devices across multiple I/O layers in high-performance computing (HPC) systems, and 3)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $600,000 in funding to the University of Hawaii to conduct research on developing parallel, cache-efficient data structures. The key objectives are to: Incorporate fractional cascading techniques into multi-way distribution frameworks to combine parallelism and I/O efficiency. Develop parallel construction of (partially) persistent B-trees...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop a workbench for scientists and engineers to address numerical issues in real-world applications. The $903,565 award, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will fund the creation of standards, benchmarks, and user interfaces to make existing numerical tools interoperable and easier to use together. The project will extend the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $420,000 in funding to the University of California, Davis to develop a workbench for scientists and engineers to address numerical issues in real-world applications. The goal is to build a set of standards, benchmarks, and user interfaces to make existing numerical software tools more interoperable and easier to use together. The project...

This $281,385 federal 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 advanced software developer tools to enable the use of heterogeneous computing hardware, including graphics processing units (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The goal is to lower the barriers for software engineers with varying levels...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $540,000 to the University of Illinois to develop a holistic framework called ECOHPC that enables energy-efficient execution of hybrid workloads on heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The project aims to address two key barriers to energy-conscious HPC: power waste in heterogeneous hardware and the lack of dynamic power...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program Project Grant award of $599,084 to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (RF SUNY) aims to enhance the timeliness and power-efficiency of real-time data services. The 3-year project, beginning October 1, 2023, will investigate novel methodologies to improve the capabilities of cost-efficient real-time embedded databases supporting data-intensive applications like smart...

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 $800,000 from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a collaborative research effort titled "MPI4AI: Enhancing Performance and Productivity of AI Science through Next-Generation High Performance Communication Abstractions." The project, a multi-university collaboration between Tennessee Technological University, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Stony Brook University,...