OpportunityTitle: Resilience for Extreme Scale Supercomputing Systems
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: All types of applicants are eligible to apply, except Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Contractors, 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.  At most two applications as a Prime/Lead institution will be accepted from each institution. There is no ceiling on the number of applications as a collaborating institution that may be submitted by each institution. Proposed work should not be the same across multiple projects.  Each Senior Person (Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, and/or other senior researchers who contribute to the intellectual content of a proposal) may participate in at most two proposals.   ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS: Individuals with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as a Program Director/Principal Investigator are invited to work with their organizations to develop an application for assistance. Individuals from underrepresented groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for assistance.
Description: The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) in the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby invites proposals for basic research that significantly improves the resiliency of scientific applications in the context of emerging architectures for extreme scale computing platforms. The next-generation of scientific discovery will be enabled by research developments that can effectively harness significant or disruptive advances in computing technology. Applications running on extreme scale computing systems will generate results with orders of magnitude higher resolution and fidelity, achieving a time-to-solution significantly shorter than possible with today?s high performance computing platforms. However, indications are that these new systems will experience hard and soft errors with increasing frequency, necessitating research to develop new approaches to resilience that enable applications to run efficiently to completion in a timely manner and achieve correct results. Of interest are proposals that address challenges in the following topics: 1. Fault Detection and Categorization 2. Fault Mitigation 3. Anomaly Detection and Fault Avoidance More specific information is included under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION in the full funding opportunity announcement document DE-FOA-0001059. The full text of the FOA is located on FedConnect. Instructions for completing the Grant Application Package are contained in the full text of the FOA which can be obtained at: https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/?doc=DE-FOA-0001059&amp;agency=DOE. A companion Program Announcement to DOE Laboratories (LAB 14-1059) will be posted on the SC Grants and Contracts web site at: http://science.energy.gov/grants/
GrantorContactEmailDescription: lucy.nowell@science.doe.gov
GrantorContactText: Lucille T. Nowell, Technical-Scientific Program Contact, 301-903-3191&lt;br/&gt;lucy.nowell@science.doe.gov&lt;br/&gt;