The High-End Computing University Research Activity (HECURA) program is offering this grant to address critical challenges in high-performance computing (HEC) systems. This grant is for supporting research and education proposals focused on advancing I/O, file, and storage systems design. The goal is to achieve efficient, high-throughput data storage, retrieval, and management for HEC systems comprising hundreds-of-thousands to millions of processors. While processing power and storage capacity grow, data bandwidth and access times lag, creating performance bottlenecks for data-intensive applications. Research areas of interest include I/O architectures, file systems, metadata, data management systems, novel storage devices, and tools for system design and performance. The HECURA program aims to overcome these limitations to maintain application throughput.
Opportunity ID: 45651
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 09-530 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | High-End Computing University Research Activity |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 20 |
| Assistance Listings: | 47.070 — Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Mar 03, 2009 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Apr 15, 2009 Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 15, 2009 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Apr 15, 2009 Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 15, 2009 |
| Archive Date: | – |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $10,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $1,000,000 |
| 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: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| Description: | High-performance computing is increasingly essential to progress in science and engineering. Contemporary high-end computing (HEC) systems often comprising of tens- to hundreds-of-thousands of processors allow researchers to study complex problems that were previously intractable. However, emerging data-intensive scientific challenges and opportunities demand more of HEC systems. For example, observation- and simulation-driven applications require higher throughput input/output (I/O) capabilities, large data storage capacities, and tools for efficiently finding, processing, organizing and moving data. Data-management challenges also include the need to access large volumes of data produced by different applications, in numerous locations, and in various formats.Although storage capacity and processing power are growing rapidly, increases in data bandwidth and access times are not keeping pace. In fact, the advent of multicore processors has resulted in a decrease in memory and bandwidth per core. The performance gap between HEC processing power and storage device performance demands advances in massively parallel I/O systems to maintain the throughput of applications. The ability to efficiently map I/O operations between millions of distributed memories and hundreds-of-thousands of storage devices is also a formidable problem that calls for research.Accordingly, in 2009, the High-End Computing University Research Activity (HECURA) program invites research and education proposals in the areas of I/O, file and storage systems design for efficient, high-throughput data storage, retrieval and management in cases where HEC systems comprise hundreds-of-thousands to millions of processors. Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to:I/O architectures and I/O middleware; archives/backups as extensions to file systems;file systems research and file systems-related protocols;metadata research;access methods; data management systems; security; novel storage devices for the I/O stack; Quality of Service;management, and reliability and availability at scale (RAS);hardware and software tools for design and simulation of I/O, file and storage systems; andefficient benchmarking, tracing, performance measurement and tuning tools of I/O, file and storage systems. |
| Link to Additional Information: | NSF Publication 09-530 |
| 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 | ADOBE-FORMS-A | Adobe-Forms-A | PKG00010814 | Mar 03, 2009 | Apr 15, 2009 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
45651 RR_SF424_1_2-1.2.pdf
45651 PerformanceSite_1_2-1.2.pdf
45651 RR_OtherProjectInfo_1_2-1.2.pdf
45651 RR_KeyPersonExpanded_1_2-1.2.pdf
45651 RR_PersonalData_1_2-1.2.pdf
45651 RR_Budget-1.1.pdf
45651 NSF_CoverPage_1_2-1.2.pdf
45651 NSF_ApplicationChecklist_1_2-1.2.pdf
Optional forms
45651 RR_SubawardBudget-1.2.pdf
45651 NSF_DeviationAuthorization-1.1.pdf
45651 NSF_SuggestedReviewers-1.1.pdf
45651 NSF_Registration_1_3-1.3.pdf
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