Project Grant ED16DEN3030036

The University of California, Davis received a $215,805 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on October 1, 2021 to support collaborative research on demand response and workload management for data centers with increased renewable energy penetration. The award is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to foster innovation in engineering research and education. Specifically, the university will...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, aims to develop innovative solutions to enable carbon-zero colocation data centers that support the booming artificial intelligence industry and digital economy. Specifically, the project proposes to: (1) create a computationally-efficient mechanism to...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will support a collaborative research project at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside). The project aims to develop a user-interactive approach to water management for sustainable data centers. Key objectives include: Designing a fair and accurate water accounting system to track water footprints at both the user and facility levels....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, aims to develop novel techniques and design approaches to minimize the carbon footprint of data centers while increasing the utilization of renewable energy sources on the power grid. Key objectives include: Estimating fine-grained...

This collaborative research project, funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), awards $540,000 to the University of Washington to develop NetFusion, a rack-scale disaggregated network solution designed to optimize data center performance. The project, which runs from August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2029, delivers research and development services focused on...

Grant Award Summary Boston University received a $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) on June 15, 2025, to develop foundational research and optimization frameworks for flexible artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. Under this award, which extends through May 31, 2028, the institution will deliver a comprehensive data center control framework designed to regulate power consumption...

This three-year, $1,458,189 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a community testbed for designing carbon-efficient cloud applications. Administered through the Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, the award advances the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program's goals of expanding computing research infrastructure and innovation. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts will design and deploy a testbed in an edge...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Georgia TECH Research Corp received a $348,081 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), effective June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2031. This CAREER award supports research to develop integrated load and resource management systems for high-utilization datacenters. The project delivers research advances in coordinating...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $599,276 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Sponsored Projects Services, from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The grant supports the development of novel application-layer models, algorithms, and tools to enable energy-efficient and high-performance data...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program awarded a $299,957 project grant to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to develop a user-interactive approach to water management for sustainable data centers. The 3-year project, which began on Sep 15, 2023, aims to: Create a fair and accurate water accounting system for data centers at both the user and facility levels; Develop a scalable user-interactive resource management approach...