High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering

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	Federal Grant Title:	High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering
	CFDA Number:	47.070
	CFDA Description:	Computer and Information Science and Engineering
	Federal Agency Name:	National Science Foundation
	Category of Funding Activity:	Science and Technology
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	05-625
	Document Type:	Modification to Previous Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Oct 17, 2005
	Creation Date:	Mar 03, 2008
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Dec 05, 2007 FY 2008 due date extended by one week to December 05, 2007 FY 2009 due date: November 28, 2008
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
	Archive Date:	Information not provided
	Expected Number of Awards:	2
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$30,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$30,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$15,000,000
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant

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

Information not provided

Grant Description

NSF's five-year goal for high performance computing (HPC) is to enable petascale science and engineering through the deployment and support of a world-class HPC environment comprising the most capable combination of HPC assets available to the academic community. By the year 2010, the petascale HPC environment will enable investigations of computationally challenging problems that require computing systems capable of delivering sustained performance approaching 1015 floating point operations per second (petaflops) on real applications, that consume large amounts of memory, and/or that work with very large data sets. Among other things, researchers will be able to perform simulations that are intrinsically multi-scale or that involve the simultaneous interaction of multiple processes. HPC Resource Providers - those organizations willing to acquire, deploy and operate HPC systems in service to the broad science and engineering research and education community - play a key role in the provision and support of a national HPC environment. With this solicitation, NSF requests proposals from organizations willing to serve as HPC Resource Providers, and who propose to acquire and deploy a new, and/or upgrade an existing, HPC system. Competitive HPC systems will: 1) Enable researchers to work on a range of computationally-challenging science and engineering applications; 2) Incorporate reliable, robust system software essential to optimal sustained performance; and 3) Provide a high degree of stability and usability. A robust and effective HPC acquisition process, driven by the requirements of the science and engineering research and education community, is one of the key elements of NSF's HPC strategy. System performance on an appropriate set of benchmarks will thus be a key factor in system selection. These benchmarks will be designed to capture the salient attributes of those science and engineering applications placing the most stringent demands on the systems to be provisioned. The performance requirements and benchmarks for this competition are posted on the NSF website at http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=OCI. Up to two awards will be made as a result of this competition.

Link to Full Grant Announcement

NSF Publication 05-625
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05625

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