Opportunity ID: 131794

General Information

Document Type:: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:: DE-FOA-0000619
Funding Opportunity Title:: 2012 X-Stack: Programming Challenges, Runtime Systems, and Tools
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:: 15
Assistance Listings Number(s):: 81.049 — Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:: No
Version:: Synopsis 1
Posted Date:: Nov 22, 2011
Last Updated Date::
Original Closing Date for Applications:: Feb 06, 2012
Current Closing Date for Applications:: Feb 06, 2012
Archive Date:: May 07, 2012
Estimated Total Program Funding:: $ 15,000,000
Award Ceiling:: $1,500,000
Award Floor:: $500,000

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants:: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility”
Additional Information on Eligibility:: All types of domestic entities are eligible to apply, except other Federal agencies, Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Contractors, and nonprofit organizations described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that engaged in lobbying activities after December 31, 1995.

Additional Information

Agency Name:: Office of Science
Description:: The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby invites applications for basic research that represents significant advances in programming models, languages, compilers, runtime systems and tools that address fundamental challenges related to the system software stack for Exascale computing platforms (X-Stack).

Programming models, languages, and related technologies that have sustained High Performance Computing (HPC) application software development for the past decade are inadequate for Exascale era computers. The significant increase in complexity of Exascale platforms due to energy-constrained, billion-way parallelism, with major changes to processor architecture, requires new energy-efficient and resilient programming techniques that are portable across multiple future machine generations. We expect to make research investments that address fundamental Exascale challenges, while offering a transition path for existing scientific applications to fully explore the challenges and rewards of Exascale platforms. Exascale programming challenges and strategies were identified in the ASCR Exascale Programming Challenges Workshop [1] and carefully captured in the workshop report [2]. Challenges and strategies related to tools for Exascale platforms were identified in the ASCR Exascale T
ools Workshop [3], and captured in the workshop report [4].

Sought are complete solutions that will address multiple components of the system software stack and that will have the following characteristics:
? Scalability: enable applications to strongly scale to Exascale levels of parallelism;
? Programmability: clearly reduce the burden we are placing on high performance programmers;
? Performance Portability: eliminate or significantly minimize requirements for porting to future platforms;
? Resilience: properly manage fault detection and recovery at all components of the software stack; and
? Energy Efficiency: maximally exploit dynamic energy saving opportunities, leveraging the tradeoffs between energy efficiency, resilience, and performance.

The full text of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is located on FedConnect. Instructions for completing the Grant Application Package are contained in the full text of the FOA which can be obtained at: https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0000619&agency=DOE

A companion Program Announcement for DOE National Laboratories (LAB 12-619) will be posted on the Office of Science Grants and Contracts web site at: Http://www.science.doe.gov/grants/pdf/LAB_12-619.pdf
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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: 81.049
Competition ID: DE-FOA-0000619
Competition Title: 2012 X-Stack: Programming Challenges, Runtime Systems, and Tools
Opportunity Package ID: PKG00086531
Opening Date: Nov 22, 2011
Closing Date: Feb 06, 2012
Agency Contact Information:: Marilyn Oyler
Who Can Apply:: Organization and Individual Applicants
mendatory_forms SF424 (R & R) [V1.2]
Research & Related Budget [V1.1]
Project/Performance Site Location(s) [V1.2]
Research And Related Other Project Information [V1.2]
optional_forms R & R Subaward Budget Attachment(s) Form [V1.2]
Disclosure of Lobbying Activities (SF-LLL) [V1.1]

Packages

Assistance Listings Competition ID Competition Title Opportunity Package ID Opening Date Closing Date Actions Who Can Apply:
81.049 DE-FOA-0000619 2012 X-Stack: Programming Challenges, Runtime Systems, and Tools PKG00086531 Nov 22, 2011 Feb 06, 2012 View Marilyn Oyler Organization and Individual Applicants

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