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Foundations of Computing Processes and Artifacts CPA
Solicitation due October 10, 2006
Computational artifacts range from formalisms, models, theories and languages to hardware/software architectures, technology components and a variety of physical manifestations of implementations. Areas of interest include: topics in software engineering such as software design methodologies, tools for software testing, analysis, synthesis, and verification; semantics, design, and implementation of programming languages; software systems and tools for reliable and high performance computing; computer architectures including memory and I/O subsystems, micro-architectural techniques, and application-specific architectures; system-on-a-chip; performance metrics and evaluation tools;
Computer Systems Architecture
This sub-area covers foundations in computer system architecture research and education for enabling robust high-performance computer systems. Computer architectures that provide enhanced functionality and scalable performance to meet the growing demands of diverse applications while meeting stringent constraints on energy and power consumption, reliability, design complexity, and so on are needed. Such functionality includes architectural support for facilitating programmability, real-time computation, security, power and thermal management, soft and hard error detection and recovery, dynamic adaptation, and self repair of systems implemented in nano-scale technologies that provide giga-scale integration.
Specific research topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: computer system architecture, including processor microarchitecture, memory, interconnection network, I/O and storage subsystems; high-level design and analysis of computer systems, including methods, tools, processes, and artifacts for automated design space exploration, modeling, benchmarking, simulation, synthesis, and performance evaluation; design and performance modeling of multithreaded, multicore, many-core, and multiprocessor architectures, including chip multiprocessors, tiled architectures, and heterogeneous systems-on-a-chip; on-chip networks and distributed register and cache structures; parallel programming and memory models; multi-objective optimizations, including performance, power, temperature, reliability, security, area and complexity; application-specific processors and reconfigurable computing, including tools and techniques to facilitate application-to-hardware mapping and fault-induced reconfiguration; novel architectures and hardware primitives that facilitate concurrency and exploit parallelism at multiple levels (e.g., fine-grained, instruction, data, thread, stream, task and coarse-grained).
Awards
Estimated Number of Awards: 80 to 120 awards with an average funding amount of $125,000/year for up to three years are anticipated. Up to 2 collaborative multi-institutional awards of $250,000/year for four years on topics dealing with architecture and design for nanosystems with relevance to computing (based on silicon or beyond) are also anticipated. Up to 5 awards of $500,000/year for three years for well-integrated projects of larger scope.
Computing Research Infrastructure CISE CRI
Abstract due: July 24, 2006
Solicitation due Aug 28, 2006
Money allocated to prototyping, $300,000-2,000,000
Computer Systems Research CSR
Solicitation due Nov 10, 2006
The Computer Systems Research (CSR) program supports innovative research and education projects that have the potential to: * lead to significant improvements in existing computer systems by increasing our fundamental understanding of such systems * produce systems software that is qualitatively and quantitatively more reliable and more efficient; and/or * produce innovative curricula or educational materials that better prepare the next generation of computing professionals.
Interested in System Software improvements, especially reliability. 35-45 small group 6-12 team awards $28M. I think we fit best in their "System Modeling and Analysis"; category.
System Modeling and Analysis (SMA)
The SMA topical area supports the development of methods and tools for modeling, measuring, analyzing, evaluating, and predicting the performance and correctness of complex computing and communications systems. Ideally, these methods and tools will be general and powerful enough to be applicable to the range of platforms addressed in this solicitation, from embedded systems to conventional systems to high-end computational grids. Proposed methods and tools should support analysis of all levels of a system hardware, systems software, and application and of entire systems.
Awards
Single Investigator and Small Group. These awards include one or two PIs, with budgets of up to $800,000, and durations of two or three years. Approximately 35-45 Single Investigator and Small Group awards will be given in each annual CSR competition, with an estimated average award size of approximately $450,000. Team These awards include three or more PIs, with budgets of up to $2,000,000, and durations of three or four years. Approximately 6-12 team awards will be given in each annual CSR competition, with an estimated average award size of $1,000,000.
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