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NSF- Leadership-Class System Acquisition – Creating a Petascale Computing Environment for Science & Engineering NSF 06-573

Program Description

NSF’s goal for high performance computing (HPC) in the period 2006-2011 is to enable petascale science and engineering through the deployment and support of a world-class HPC environment comprising the most capable combination of HPC assets available to the academic community. The petascale HPC environment will enable investigations of computationally challenging problems that require computing systems capable of delivering sustained performance approaching 1015 floating point operations per second (petaflops) on real applications, that consume large amounts of memory, and/or that work with very large data sets. Among other things, researchers will be able to perform simulations that are intrinsically multi-scale or that involve the simultaneous interaction of multiple processes.HPC Resource Providers - those organizations willing to acquire, deploy and operate HPC systems in service to the broad science and engineering research and education community - play a key role in the provision and support of a national HPC environment. With this solicitation, NSF requests proposals from organizations, or groups of organizations, willing to serve as a petascale HPC Resource Provider, and who propose to acquire and deploy a new, state-of-the-art, petascale HPC system.

Only one application is permitted.

Awards

Anticipated award is up to $200,000,000 over four years..

Program announcement located at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06573/nsf06573.html

Deadlines

Letter of Intent

http://www.research.uic.edu/funding/forms/0600.doc
Item 3 can be left blank for this program.
Submit to Tony Halford, Program Coordinator, OVCR at ahalford@uic.edu.
By submission of this form, applicant attests that s/he has read and meets the sponsor's eligibility criteria for this program.

Limited Competition Instructions

If requested, submit one electronic copy of a White Paper containing the following:

1. One (1) Page cover page with following information:
   1. Name & departmental affiliation of PI and Co-PIs
   2. Sponsor and sponsor program name
   3. Title of White Paper
   4. PI Contact Information
   5. Optional:
      1. Identify potential individuals to review proposal - reviewers should not have a personal stake in outcome of this competition and ideally should not be from same unit as applicant.
      2. Identify reviewers to exclude - this information will remain confidential.
2. Three (3) page narrative addressing:
   1. How your proposal addresses the intent of Program Announcement
   2. What PI & team expect to accomplish
   3. Expected overall significance
3. Attach the following for PI and each CoPI:
   1. Two page CV
   2. 1 page current and pending support

Narrative must be 12-point font; minimum acceptable margin is 1 inch (2.5 cm) all around.
Unless otherwise noted, no budget is required

Please contact Tony Halford, Program Coordinator at ahalford@uic.edu or 6-7036 with any questions.

Last updated: Thursday, May 17, 2012.