FOA-NSF/VMware
Partnership on the Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure
(NGSDI); deadline varies
Agency
National
Science Foundation
Description
The
goal of this joint solicitation between NSF and VMware is to foster novel,
transformative research in fundamental and systematic approaches that bring
dramatic increases in the environmental sustainability of the Digital
Infrastructure leading to practical methodologies and tools. The Digital
Infrastructure is broadly defined as the totality of software, hardware, and the
methods for managing them for the purpose of efficient computation. This
research includes, but is not limited to, computer software and systems;
management of distributed software, the Digital Infrastructure, and data center
power sourcing; and resource allocation and scheduling. Critical to initiating
such research is to set its objectives through the definition of novel metrics
and benchmarks that capture the sustainability challenges of all components in
the entire computation chain.
The
program also aims to support a research community committed to advancing
research and education at the confluence of management technologies for
software, hardware and power for Sustainable Digital Infrastructure, and to
transition research findings into practice. A new generation of innovation
would build on many recent advances such as passive and active measurements,
statistical analysis and inference, learning for automated control and complex
optimization, workload isolation and management, agile development, convergence
of development and production environments, and architecture-optimized language
translation.
The
next generation of innovation in sustainability of Digital Infrastructure will
consider the full range of research areas, including 1) metrics, benchmarks and
measurement methods to capture the wide variety of applications; 2)
infrastructure architectures and approaches to incorporate sustainability
concerns across the full Development and Operations (DevOps) lifecycle; and 3)
methods to manage the aggregate Digital Infrastructure environment and
workloads.
NSF
and VMware will support multiple projects with funding of up to $3,000,000 each
over three years, and it is intended that NSF and VMware will co-fund each
project.
Announcement
Number:
NSF
20-598
Closing
Date:
Deadline
varies by topic area, see full announcement for details
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20594/nsf20594.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
Erik
Brunvand
(703)
292-2767