The National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering this grant to advance its vision of enabling petascale computational and data-driven science and engineering. This solicitation seeks proposals from HPC Resource Providers to acquire and deploy innovative petascale High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and services within Extreme Digital (XD), the successor to TeraGrid. The grant aims to expand the range of data-intensive science applications, introduce new capabilities, provide migration paths for researchers, and ensure robust, stable, and usable systems by January 2013. Competitive systems must complement existing XD services, with selection significantly based on both NSF-provided and proposer-selected benchmarks to demonstrate performance and innovation for demanding scientific applications.
Opportunity ID: 59101
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 11-511 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | High Performance System Acquisition: Enhancing the Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 47.080 — Office of Cyberinfrastructure |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | Yes |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Dec 10, 2010 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Mar 07, 2011 Full Proposal Deadline(s): March 07, 2011 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Mar 07, 2011 Full Proposal Deadline(s): March 07, 2011 |
| Archive Date: | – |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $30,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | $30,000,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | *Organization Limit: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -U.S. institutions of higher education and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers are eligible to apply as Resource Providers. It is recognized that FFRDCs may be positioned to make unique contributions to the HPC environment important to academic researchers. Hence for the purposes of this solicitation, NSF will consider acquiring and deploying HPC systems at FFRDC sites. However, proposing organizations must assure that open access to the HPC systems deployed will be provided to researchers from the broad range of science and engineering fields supported by NSF. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| Description: | The NSF’s vision for Cyberinfrastructure in the 21st Century includes enabling sustained petascale computational and data-driven science and engineering through the deployment and support of a world-class High Performance Computing (HPC) environment. For the past decade the NSF has provided the open science and engineering community with state of the art HPC assets ranging from loosely coupled clusters, to large scale instruments with many thousands of computing cores communicating via fast interconnects. Previous solicitations, as exemplified by the multi-pronged Track Two acquisitions, have provided more than two petaflops (1015 floating point operations per second) of compute power on real applications, that consume large amounts of memory, and work with very large data sets. These resources have been made available through the TeraGrid, the world’s largest, most powerful and comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open science. In addition to the Track Two acquisitions, the ongoing Track One program promises to deliver a petaflop of sustained power capable of tackling some of the most challenging scientific problems across multiple science and engineering domains. HPC Resource Providers – those organizations willing to acquire, deploy and operate HPC resources in service to the science and engineering research and education community – play a key role in the provision and support of a national Cyberinfrasructure. With this solicitation, the NSF requests proposals from organizations willing to serve as HPC Resource Providers within Extreme Digital (XD), the successor to TeraGrid, and who propose to acquire and deploy new, innovative petascale HPC systems and services.Competitive HPC systems will:Expand the range of data intensive computationally-challenging science and engineering applications that can be tackled with XD HPC services; Introduce a major new innovative capability component to science and engineering research communities:Provide an effective migration path to researchers scaling data and code beyond the campus level;Incorporate reliable, robust system software and services essential to optimal sustained performance; Efficiently provide a high degree of stability and usability by January, 2013; andComplement and leverage existing XD capabilities and services.Benchmarks will be a key factor in system selection. Two types of benchmarks are required: NSF provided benchmarks and proposer selected benchmarks. The NSF provided benchmarks, which are posted on NSF web-siteNSF 0605 are designed to capture the salient attributes of those science and engineering applications which will place the most stringent demands on the overall system to be provisioned. Proposer provided benchmarks should focus on the innovative aspect of the proposal . |
| Link to Additional Information: | NSF Publication 11-511 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
NSF grants.gov support
grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov Email:grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov |
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | NSF grants.gov support grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov Email: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47.080 | PKG00023070 | Dec 07, 2010 | Mar 07, 2011 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
59101 RR_SF424_1_2-1.2.pdf
59101 PerformanceSite_1_4-1.4.pdf
59101 RR_OtherProjectInfo_1_3-1.3.pdf
59101 RR_KeyPersonExpanded_1_2-1.2.pdf
59101 RR_PersonalData_1_2-1.2.pdf
59101 RR_Budget-1.1.pdf
59101 NSF_CoverPage_1_3-1.3.pdf
Optional forms
59101 RR_SubawardBudget-1.2.pdf
59101 NSF_DeviationAuthorization-1.1.pdf
59101 NSF_SuggestedReviewers-1.1.pdf
59101 NSF_Registration_1_3-1.3.pdf
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