High Performance System Acquisition: Enhancing the Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering
Posted by U.S. National Science Foundation
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement — High Performance System Acquisition: Enhancing the Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering — is cataloged under number 11-511 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 47.080, posted by U.S. National Science Foundation. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on December 10, 2010. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is $30,000,000 or more. The agency has projected $30.0 million in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 1 award. If the agency funds the expected 1 award from the $30.0 million estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $30.0 million. Cost sharing or matching funds are required, meaning applicants must contribute a portion of the project budget from non-federal sources — factor this into your financial plan before drafting the proposal. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on March 7, 2011. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully — federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed — it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities.
Award Range
$30,000,000 or more
Close Date
March 7, 2011
Full Proposal Deadline(s): March 07, 2011
Posted
December 10, 2010
Est. Total Funding
$30,000,000
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Cost Sharing
Required
Description
The NSF's vision for Cyberinfrastructure in the 21st Century includes enabling sustained petascale computational and data-driven science and engineering through the deployment and support of a world-class High Performance Computing (HPC) environment. For the past decade the NSF has provided the open science and engineering community with state of the art HPC assets ranging from loosely coupled clusters, to large scale instruments with many thousands of computing cores communicating via fast interconnects. Previous solicitations, as exemplified by the multi-pronged Track Two acquisitions, have provided more than two petaflops (1015 floating point operations per second) of compute power on real applications, that consume large amounts of memory, and work with very large data sets. These resources have been made available through the TeraGrid, the world's largest, most powerful and comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open science. In addition to the Track Two acquisitions, the ongoing Track One program promises to deliver a petaflop of sustained power capable of tackling some of the most challenging scientific problems across multiple science and engineering domains. HPC Resource Providers - those organizations willing to acquire, deploy and operate HPC resources in service to the science and engineering research and education community - play a key role in the provision and support of a national Cyberinfrasructure. With this solicitation, the NSF requests proposals from organizations willing to serve as HPC Resource Providers within Extreme Digital (XD), the successor to TeraGrid, and who propose to acquire and deploy new, innovative petascale HPC systems and services.Competitive HPC systems will:Expand the range of data intensive computationally-challenging science and engineering applications that can be tackled with XD HPC services; Introduce a major new innovative capability component to science and engineering research communities:Provide an effective migration path to researchers scaling data and code beyond the campus level;Incorporate reliable, robust system software and services essential to optimal sustained performance; Efficiently provide a high degree of stability and usability by January, 2013; andComplement and leverage existing XD capabilities and services.Benchmarks will be a key factor in system selection. Two types of benchmarks are required: NSF provided benchmarks and proposer selected benchmarks. The NSF provided benchmarks, which are posted on NSF web-siteNSF 0605 are designed to capture the salient attributes of those science and engineering applications which will place the most stringent demands on the overall system to be provisioned. Proposer provided benchmarks should focus on the innovative aspect of the proposal .
Eligibility
25
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Parent Grant Program
Antarctic Research Grants
National Science Foundation
Agency Contact
NSF grants.gov support<br/>grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov<br/>
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