This grant offered by the National Science Foundation is aimed at supporting pioneering research to usher in a new era of parallel computing. The program focuses on re-evaluating and potentially redesigning the traditional computer hardware and software stack for today’s diverse parallel and distributed systems. It encourages collaborative efforts among researchers across different domains to develop innovative approaches that enhance scalability and performance. Emphasis is placed on creating new abstract models, algorithms, programming languages, hardware architectures, and more to address energy efficiency and communication optimization. Applications are welcomed to explore holistic solutions for parallelism and scalability challenges in computing systems.
Opportunity ID: 205814
General Information
| Document Type:: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number:: | 13-507 |
| Funding Opportunity Title:: | Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability |
| Opportunity Category:: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation:: | |
| Funding Instrument Type:: | |
| Category of Funding Activity:: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation:: | |
| Expected Number of Awards:: | 20 |
| Assistance Listings Number(s):: | 47.070 — Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:: | No |
| Version:: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date:: | Nov 05, 2012 |
| Last Updated Date:: | |
| Original Closing Date for Applications:: | Feb 20, 2013 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications:: | Feb 20, 2013 |
| Archive Date:: | Mar 20, 2013 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding:: | $ 15,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling:: | $750,000 |
| Award Floor:: | $1 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants:: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility:: | *PI Limit: Each proposal is required to have two or more PIs providing different and distinct expertise relevant to the program’s focus areas. More details are available in Section V.A. Proposal Preparation Instructions. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name:: | National Science Foundation |
| Description:: | Computing systems have undergone a fundamental transformation from the single-processor devices of the turn of the century to today’s ubiquitous and networked devices and warehouse-scale computing via the cloud. Parallelism has become ubiquitous at many levels. The proliferation of multi- and many-core processors, ever-increasing numbers of interconnected high performance and data intensive edge devices, and the data centers servicing them, is enabling a new set of global applications with large economic and social impact. At the same time, semiconductor technology is facing fundamental physical limits and single processor performance has plateaued. This means that the ability to achieve predictable performance improvements through improved processor technologies has ended. The Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS) program aims to support groundbreaking research leading to a new era of parallel computing. XPS seeks research re-evaluating, and possibly re-designing, the traditional computer hardware and software stack for today’s heterogeneous parallel and distributed systems and exploring new holistic approaches to parallelism and scalability. Achieving the needed breakthroughs will require a collaborative effort among researchers representing all areas– from the application layer down to the micro-architecture– and will be built on new concepts and new foundational principles. New approaches to achieve scalable performance and usability need new abstract models and algorithms, programming models and languages, hardware architectures, compilers, operating systems and run-time systems, and exploit domain and application-specific knowledge. Research should also focus on energy- and communication-efficiency and on enabling the division of effort between edge devices and clouds. |
| Link to Additional Information:: | |
| Grantor Contact Information:: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
| Synopsis 1 |
Package Status
Below are CLOSED Opportunity Package(s) no longer available for this Funding Opportunity:
Package No: 1
| Assistance Listings: | 47.070 |
| Competition ID: | |
| Competition Title: | |
| Opportunity Package ID: | PKG00151911 |
| Opening Date: | Nov 05, 2012 |
| Closing Date: | Feb 20, 2013 |
| Agency Contact Information:: | Geoffrey Brown |
| Who Can Apply:: | Organization and Individual Applicants |
| mendatory_forms |
SF424 (R & R) [V1.2] Project/Performance Site Location(s) [V1.4] Research And Related Other Project Information [V1.3] Research And Related Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded) [V1.2] Research & Related Personal Data [V1.2] Research & Related Budget [V1.1] NSF Cover Page [V1.3] |
| optional_forms |
R & R Subaward Budget Attachment(s) Form [V1.2] NSF Deviation Authorization [V1.1] NSF Suggested Reviewers [V1.1] NSF FastLane System Registration [V1.3] |
Packages
| Assistance Listings | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions | Who Can Apply: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47.070 | PKG00151911 | Nov 05, 2012 | Feb 20, 2013 | View | Geoffrey Brown | Organization and Individual Applicants |