The National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering this grant, the Computing in the Cloud (CiC) program, to empower the science and engineering communities. This grant is for the purpose of leveraging highly-scalable cloud computing platforms, specifically Microsoft’s Windows Azure, to conduct cutting-edge research and education activities. Recognizing cloud services as a critical and growing paradigm with widespread societal impact, NSF aims to stimulate both basic and applied research in cloud computing. Additionally, the program encourages simultaneous advances in other scientific and engineering fields. This funding supports proposals submitted as new solicitations, supplements to existing awards, or EAGER proposals, fostering innovation in this vital domain.
Opportunity ID: 52811
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 10-550 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Computing in the Cloud |
| 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: | 15 |
| Assistance Listings: | 47.049 — Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Mar 16, 2010 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 15, 2010 Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time): April 30, 2010 Full Proposal Deadline(s): June 15, 2010 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 15, 2010 Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time): April 30, 2010 Full Proposal Deadline(s): June 15, 2010 |
| Archive Date: | – |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $5,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | $500,000 |
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: -Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with educational or research activities. -Universities and Colleges – Universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| Description: | Cloud services represent a growing paradigm of on-demand access (as a service) to computing, data and software utilities, an abstraction of unlimited resources, and a usage-based billing model where users essentially "rent" virtual resources and pay for what they use. Underlying these cloud (infrastructure, platform, data, software, etc.) services are consolidated and virtualized data centers that provide virtual machine (VM) containers hosting computation and applications from a large numbers of distributed users. It is anticipated that cloud platforms and services will increasingly play a critical role in academic, government and industry sectors, and will thus have widespread societal impact.NSF’s goal is to provide the science and engineering communities with the opportunity to leverage highly-scalable cloud computing platforms to conduct research and education activities in cloud computing and data-intensive computing, and their applications. This solicitation specifically focuses on the use of Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform as a complement to the computational platforms that NSF has made available to the research community to date. While the main focus of the Computing in the Cloud (CiC) program is to stimulate basic and applied research in cloud computing through the Microsoft Azure platform, the potential to foster simultaneous advances in other fields of science and engineering is both recognized and encouraged.CiC proposals may be submitted in response to this solicitation, or as supplements to existing awards, or as EAGER proposals, as described later in this solicitation. |
| Link to Additional Information: | NSF Publication 10-550 |
| 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 |
Version History
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Related Documents
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47.050 | PKG00017531 | Mar 16, 2010 | Jun 15, 2010 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
52811 RR_SF424_1_2-1.2.pdf
52811 PerformanceSite_1_2-1.2.pdf
52811 RR_OtherProjectInfo_1_2-1.2.pdf
52811 RR_KeyPersonExpanded_1_2-1.2.pdf
52811 RR_PersonalData_1_2-1.2.pdf
52811 RR_Budget-1.1.pdf
52811 NSF_CoverPage_1_3-1.3.pdf
Optional forms
52811 RR_SubawardBudget-1.2.pdf
52811 NSF_DeviationAuthorization-1.1.pdf
52811 NSF_SuggestedReviewers-1.1.pdf
52811 NSF_Registration_1_3-1.3.pdf
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