X-Stack Software Research

The summary for the X-Stack Software Research Federal Grant is detailed below. It contains information such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number, who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, important deadlines, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed in the Grant Announcement Contact section. If these sections are incomplete, please visit the website of the government agency that is offering this grant.


	Federal Grant Title:	X-Stack Software Research
	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-0000257
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Jan 29, 2010
	Creation Date:	Jan 29, 2010
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Apr 02, 2010
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Apr 02, 2010
	Archive Date:	Jul 02, 2010
	Expected Number of Awards:	15
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$10,000,000
	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 Computer Science (CS) researchers in the area of X-Stack Software Research. The X-Stack refers to the scientific software stack that supports extreme scale scientific computing, from operating systems to development environments. Multi-Institutional applications with cohesive emphasis on transformational computer science discoveries that address key challenges on the path to exascale computing are encouraged. In addition to other topics, this Announcement continues and extends topics of research addressed under the ASCR program on Operating and Runtime Systems for Extreme Scale Scientific Computation, http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/LAB07_23.html and http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/FAPN07-23.html Exascale computer systems will be comprised of as many as a billion cores. Such systems will be capable of 10 billion-way concurrency in simultaneous operations. Industry reports indicate that data movement will be the limiting factor for exascale systems, rather than processors and computational operations, especially when power constraints are considered. At the same time, memory per core is expected to decline sharply for exaflop systems, and the performance of storage systems continues to lag far behind. Multi-level storage architectures that span multiple types of hardware are anticipated and will require new approaches to run-time data management and analysis. This Funding Opportunity Announcement invites basic computer science research applications to address a variety of challenges in creating the software stack for extreme scale computing systems, the X-Stack, including operating and run-time systems, programming models and environments, and scientific workflow systems. Awards will not be made for design or development of applications for discipline-specific science.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: https://www.fedconnect.net
Grant Announcement Contact: Marilyn M. Oyler, Grants Analyst, 301-903-3604marilyn.oyler@science.doe.govDaniel A. Hitchcock, Program Manager, 301-903-6767daniel.hitchcock@science.doe.gov
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