Advanced Architectures and Critical Technologies for Exascale Computing Funding Awards

The CS Advanced Architectures and Critical Technologies for Exascale Computing call for proposals was issued January, 29, 2010 and closed March 26, 2010.  Six projects were awarded funding for a total of $5 million per year.

The following proposals were selected for funding:

Blackcomb: Hardware-Software Co-design for Non-Volatile Memory in Exascale Systems

 • Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Hewlett Packard Labs, University of Michigan, Penn State University

Enabling Co-Design of Multi-Layer Exascale Storage Architectures

 • Argonne National Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

NoLoSS: Enabling Exascale Science through Node Local Storage Systems

 • Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology

CoDEx: A Hardware/Software Co-Design Environment for the Exascale Era

 • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories

Data Movement Dominates: Advanced Memory Technology to Address the Real Exascale Power Problem

 • Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Micron Technologies, Columbia University, University of Maryland

Thrifty: An Exascale Architecture for Energy-Proportional Computing

 • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California San Diego, Intel Inc.