Scientific Data Management and Analysis at Extreme Scale

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	Federal Grant Title:	Scientific Data Management and Analysis at Extreme Scale
	CFDA Number:	81.049
	CFDA Description:	Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
	Federal Agency Name:	Chicago Service Center
	Category of Funding Activity:	Science and Technology
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	DE-FOA-0000256
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Jan 29, 2010
	Creation Date:	Jan 29, 2010
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Mar 18, 2010
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Mar 18, 2010
	Archive Date:	Jun 18, 2010
	Expected Number of Awards:	15
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$5,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	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: All types of domestic entities are eligible to apply, except other Federal agencies, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), 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. Inter-institutional collaborations are strongly encouraged to enhance and strengthen research capabilities as needed. Collaboration could include institutions such as universities, industry, non-profit organizations, federal laboratories and FFRDCs, including the DOE National Laboratories. Collaborations should be limited to filling critical voids in expertise and represent only a modest portion of the overall effort. Additionally, Federal agencies should not be included as participants or expect to receive funding under this Funding Opportunity Announcement.
Grant Description: The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces its interest in receiving applications from interdisciplinary teams of Computer Science/Applied Mathematics/Statistics/Computational Science researchers in the areas of Scientific Data Management and Analysis at Extreme Scale. Multi Institutional applications with cohesive emphasis on transformational discoveries that address key challenges in analysis and management of scientific data at extreme scale are encouraged. Partnerships among academic institutions, National Labs, and industry are strongly encouraged. Science has shifted from data scarcity to an overwhelming abundance of data, as simulations and experiments generate many petabytes of data, with some sciences facing exabytes of data near term. For example, a recent report states that climate model data are growing faster than the data set size for any other scientific discipline, with collections of hundreds of exabytes expected by 2020 (Challenges in Climate Change Science and the Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale, http://extremecomputing.labworks.org/climate/report.stm, and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is expected to produce roughly 15 petabytes of data annually over its estimated 15 year lifespan. (http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/Computing-en.html) The value of scientific data is realized only when data are effectively analyzed and results are presented to the science community, policy makers, and the public in an understandable way. The challenges of analyzing massive scientific data sets are compounded by data complexity that results from heterogeneous methods and devices for data generation and capture and the inherently multi-scale, multi-physics nature of many sciences, resulting in data with hundreds of attributes or dimensions and spanning multiple spatial and temporal scales. The combination of massive scale and complexity is such that high performance computers will be needed to analyze data, as well as to generate it through modeling and simulation. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) calls for innovative basic research in computer science for management and analysis of extreme-scale scientific data in the context of petascale computers and/or exascale computers with heterogeneous multi-core architectures. The activities supported by this FOA may be a combination of basic research, creation of algorithms for advanced architectures, and development of usable data management and analysis tools for scientific discovery. Partnerships among universities, National Laboratories, and industry are strongly encouraged.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: https://www.fedconnect.net
Grant Announcement Contact: Marilyn M. Oyler, Grants Analyst, 301-903-3604marilyn.oyler@science.doe.govLucille T. Nowell, Program Manager, 301-903-3191lucy.nowell@ascr.doe.gov
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