OpportunityTitle: Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: *Who May Serve as PI:  Each FULL-SIZE proposal is required to have two or more PIs providing different and distinct expertise relevant to the program&apos;s focus areas. More details are available in Section V.A. Proposal Preparation Instructions.
Description: Computing systems have undergone a fundamental transformation from the single-processor devices of the turn of the century to today&apos;s ubiquitous and networked devices and warehouse-scale computing via the cloud. Parallelism is abundant at many levels. At the same time, semiconductor technology is facing fundamental physical limits and single processor performance has plateaued. This means that the ability to achieve predictable performance improvements through improved processor technologies alone has ended. Thus, parallelism has become critically important. The Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS) program aims to support groundbreaking research leading to a new era of parallel computing. Achieving the needed breakthroughs will require a collaborative effort among researchers representing all areas-- from services and applications down to the micro-architecture-- and will be built on new concepts, theories, and foundational principles. New approaches to achieve scalable performance and usability need new abstract models and algorithms, new programming models and languages, new hardware architectures, compilers, operating systems and run-time systems, and must exploit domain and application-specific knowledge. Research is also needed on energy efficiency, communication efficiency, and on enabling the division of effort between edge devices and clouds.
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CloseDateExplanation: Submission Window Date(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer&apos;s local time):  February 10, 2014 - February 24, 2014