NSF 01-147
DIRECTORATE FOR COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
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Program Title: CISE Next Generation Software Program (NGS)
Synopsis of Program: The Experimental and Integrative Activities Division in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate announced in 1998 the Next Generation Software (NGS) Program to support multidisciplinary (group-oriented as well as single investigator) research in systems software.
The NGS program fosters multidisciplinary software research under two components: Technology for Performance Engineered Systems (TPES), and Complex Application Design and Support Systems (CADSS). The overall thrust of NGS is research and development for new software technologies integrated across the systems architectural layers, and supporting the design and the operation cycle of applications, computing and communications systems, and delivering quality of service (QoS). The TPES component supports research for methods and tools leading to the development of performance frameworks for modeling, measurement, analysis, evaluation and prediction of performance of complex computing and communications systems, and of the applications executing on such systems. The CADSS component supports research on novel software for the development and run-time support of complex applications executing on complex computing platforms; CADSS fostered technology breaks down traditional barriers in existing software components in the application development, support and runtime layers, and leverages TPES developed technology for delivering QoS.
It's expected that technology developed under TPES, when integrated into the design process, will lead to substantial decreases in the development time and cost of future advanced information systems, from the hardware components to the applications executing on such platforms. In addition such capabilities, when integrated into the operational process of these systems, as envisioned with CADSS, will lower the cost of their management, optimize their performance, and ensure QoS.
The technologies developed will be validated with demonstrations on important national interest applications. Multidisciplinary teams will involve collaboration among researchers in several areas in computer sciences and application developers.
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A. Proposal Preparation Instructions
B. Budgetary Information
C. Deadline/Target Dates
| November 2, 2001 | ; First Friday in November, yearly thereafter |
D. FastLane Requirements
The Experimental and Integrative Activities Division in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering(CISE) Directorate announced in 1998 the Next Generation Software(NGS)Program to support multidisciplinary (group-oriented as well as single investigator) research in systems software.
The NGS program fosters multidisciplinary software research under two components: Technology for Performance Engineered Systems (TPES), and Complex Application Design and Support Systems (CADSS). The overall thrust of NGS is research and development for new software technologies integrated across the systems' architectural layers, and supporting the design and the operation cycle of applications, computing and communications systems, and delivering quality of service (QoS). The TPES component supports research for methods and tools leading to the development of performance frameworks for modeling, measurement, analysis, evaluation and prediction of performance of complex computing and communications systems, and of the applications executing on such systems. The CADSS component supports research on novel software for the development and run-time support of complex applications executing on complex computing platforms; CADSS fostered technology breaks down traditional barriers in existing software components in the application development, support and runtime layers, and leverages TPES developed technology for delivering QoS.
It's expected that technology developed under TPES, when integrated into the design process, will lead to substantial decreases in the development time and cost of future advanced information systems, from the hardware components to the applications executing on such platforms. In addition such capabilities, when integrated into the operational process of these systems, as envisioned with CADSS, will lower the cost of their management, optimize their performance, and ensure QoS.
The technologies developed will be validated with demonstrations on important national interest applications. Multidisciplinary teams will involve collaboration among researchers in several areas in computer sciences and application developers.
Background
New and future computing platforms and applications are far more advanced, powerful, dynamic and complex than in the past. Such platforms include both the globally-distributed, meta-computing, heterogeneous, networked, and adaptive platforms, ranging from assemblies of networked workstations, to networked supercomputing clusters or combinations thereof (Grids), as well as the more tightly coupled future petaflops platforms, which will be enabled as grids-in-a-box (GiBs).
Such complexity requires new systems software technology for the design, development, run-time support, maintenance and management of the applications and their platforms. The new software technologies need to adopt a more integrated view of the architectural layers and software components of a computing system, consisting of: the applications, the application support environments (languages, compilers, application libraries, linker, run-time support, security, visualization, etc.), operating system (scheduling, resource allocation and management, etc), computing platform architectures, processing nodes and network layers.
Present software technologies supporting the design and operation of computing systems and applications treat individual layers and components in an isolated fashion. This approach had been reasonably successful when the computing systems and the applications were relatively simple. However such approaches are inadequate in supporting the emerging complex applications and computing platforms.
The research to be fostered under this program is intended to lead to more integrated software environments eliminating boundaries between the different components and layers, and create capabilities that provide a system view and management ability.
Research Scope
Overview
The TPES component will support research for developing methods, tools and performance frameworks to analyze and predict behavior of the entire computing system and of multiple views of the computing system.
This research will be enabled by creating performance frameworks capable of using models (in a plug-and-play fashion) of different levels of detail of each component and layer as needed for the specific analysis at hand. Significant advancements are needed in the current methods and tools to measure, model and analyze computing systems at all levels - from the application level, to the software level, to the hardware level.
Major technical challenges include: the development of multilevel modeling and simulation methods and tools (application level, system software, and hardware levels including the network levels), hierarchical or multiscale approaches (models of multiple levels of abstraction and resolution for components at each level), scalable approaches for modeling the behavior of the entire system or for analysing the behavior at each level as affected by the behavior of components in the other levels, and modeling of how the behavior of system components or the system scales as one shifts from a small prototype to the larger (production or future) machine or to a machine where some of the architectural features change. The present initiative seeks methods and tools that are general and powerful enough to be applicable for both globally distributed systems as well as high-end petaflops-class systems.
The CADSS component will support research on software technologies for the development and runtime support of complex applications which execute on globally distributed as well as on the planned petaflops platforms.
The research and technology to be developed encompasses the following: new programming models; new compiler technology, where part of the compiler becomes embedded in the runtime and where the compiler interacts with the system resource manager and performance models of the underlying hardware and software (such as the models developed by the TPES program component above) for optimizing the mapping of the application on the underlying platform assembly; knowledge based technology for application components' assembly; integration of these technologies into an application support environment and demonstration of these technologies on important national interest applications, including advanced networking applications.
TPES Motivation and Research Agenda
Advanced computing systems will be attained by assemblies of globally distributed, heterogeneous, networked systems, embodying high-end platforms consisting of heterogeneous processing nodes, and complex memory hierarchies. Many factors affect the performance of such complex systems and the applications executing on them. These include the computer and network architecture, the system software components and the end-user applications. There exists an array of isolated modeling and simulation methods and tools used to understand the behavior of isolated components of these systems, from analytical and queuing models, to tracing tools, simulators and emulators. However the present methods do not have the capability to provide a system view and analysis, nor they can provide a well-defined hierarchical analysis and structuring needed to model systems of the level of complexity under consideration.
The TPES component in this competition seeks proposals for multidisciplinary research on the development of methods and tools for a layered, multilevel, scalable performance engineering capability, spanning applications, systems software and hardware, and developing performance methodologies that have predictive as well as evaluation capabilities. In particular we are interested in methods which provide hierarchical or multilevel analysis of such systems, enable assessment of the effects of individual hardware and software layers and components of these systems, and which are pluggable into the performance frameworks to assess their impact on the performance of the entire system. Various approaches to developing tools that implement such modeling methods will be pursued.
The development of such capabilities requires advances in the following areas:
Proposals should include plans to demonstrate the validity of technologies developed above by applying them on important platforms and applications.
CADDS Motivation and Research Agenda
Modern applications consist of multiple inter-operating compute- and data-intensive components. To obtain accurate models and simulations, or to deliver real-time results, the applications need to execute on high-performance globally distributed and high-end petaflops-class computing platforms. At the same time these applications need to achieve high-efficiency and QoS when executing on such platforms.
The present methods of building applications result in applications that are designed for a given platform. When the platform changes, the application needs to be rewritten for a new platform. This is costly and limiting: the resulting applications cannot automatically move to the new platform; the applications cannot be distributed to run concurrently on the old and the new platforms; the applications cannot be dynamically partitioned across globally distributed platform assemblies, map dynamically across such platforms as the resource availability changes and exploit such platform assemblies with quality-of-service. Similar obstacles exist when the problem size changes and the application needs, for example, to be repartitioned and remapped for the bigger problem size. Today's technology necessitates considerable and laborious hand tuning.
Effective use of distributed computing platforms requires automating the process of distributing and mapping the application across such platforms, as well as optimizing the mapping of the application on a given high-end platform. Such automation will require a new generation of compiling technology, which will create compiling systems that extend into the run-time and can dynamically invoke operating systems services, and use performance models of the software and the hardware to dynamically optimize the application mapping across the heterogeneous platform assembly.
In addition, novel approaches and substantial enhancements are needed in computational models used to express the distributed applications and enhance the compiler's ability to: analyze task and data dependencies in the application programs, resolve dependencies, and optimize mapping across a complex memory structure of distributed (Grids or GiBs) platforms with multiple levels of memory hierarchy.
Executing applications on heterogeneous platforms also requires the runtime system to have the ability to dynamically select appropriate application components suitable for each one of the kinds of platforms in the heterogeneous platform ensemble or the problem size. The new compiling technology will be aware of the issues of heterogeneity in the underlying architecture of each of the platforms, such as differing memory organization, machine accuracy and data conversion problems, and will link to appropriately selected components to generate consistent code at runtime.
Additional technologies required are: tools for debugging distributed applications methods and tools to model the features and behavior of components of the system (such as for example those that will be developed under TPES); and making these models and tools accessible and available to the compiler for optimizing the mapping of the application.
The CADSS component in this competition will develop technology to support the development and the runtime of complex applications executing on globally distributed or high-end, petaflops-class platforms, and will allow adapting the mapping of the applications dynamically as the underlying resources change or as the application needs change. To enable such capabilities requires technical advances to:
* Develop a distributed programming model which will facilitate the compiler to distribute the application across distributed, heterogeneous, complex computing platforms. This model can be an appropriate extension of existing models.
* Create a new generation of compiling technology for such platforms, encompassing:
* Create technology for building knowledge-based application composition systems and developing capabilities in the compiler such as:
* Develop new methods of instrumentation and measurement, accessible to the compiler for application mapping, and new debugging tools suitable for distributed applications.
* Provide validation of key technologies developed above and integration of the individual technologies into an application design and support system.
Validation and Demonstration of the Technology
This competition will seek proposals for research addressing the challenges discussed above. This new software technology is a deviation from the traditional development approaches, and will often require the cooperation of researchers in the areas of applications, languages and computational models, compilers, libraries and environments, performance modeling and tools, and computer architecture and networking. An integral part of the work is to demonstrate and validate the developed technology; therefore testing of the technology on important applications will be required. Furthermore, where appropriate, partnerships with industry are encouraged, as it is also important that any prototype technology developed under this program will lead to technology transition to industry.
Proposals should include plans to demonstrate the validity of technologies developed above by applying them on important platforms and applications.
Proposals may be submitted by universities in support of individual investigators or small groups. Synergistic collaboration among researchers and collaboration or partnerships with industry or government laboratories is encouraged when appropriate. Only one proposal may be submitted by a Principal Investigator and he/she may collaborate in one other proposal as a co-Principal Investigator. Group and collaborative proposals involving more than one institution must be submitted as a single administrative package from one of the institutions involved. Due to the limited availability of funds, prospective applicants are strongly urged to contact the cognizant program officer listed at the end of this document for guidance.
Available Funding: The awards are expected to be in the range of $200,000 to $1 million per year; particular circumstances may justify awards outside of this range. It is anticipated that most awards will be for three years, but longer periods will be considered if they are clearly required by the research proposed. Subject to availability of funds, about $6 million is available for this competition.
A. Proposal Preparation Instructions
Letters of Intent: September 14, 2001; Second Friday in September, yearly thereafter.
Full Proposal:Proposals submitted in response to this program announcement/solicitation should be prepared and submitted in accordance with the general guidelines contained in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG). The complete text of the GPG is available electronically on the NSF Web Site at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?gpg. Paper copies of the GPG may be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, telephone (301) 947-2722 or by e-mail from pubs@nsf.gov.
The following are exceptions to the general guidelines, specific to this activity, and must be added to the 15-page project description:
- each PI and Co-PI may use up to an additional 2 pages each to describe results under prior NSF support, focusing on those results relevant to the proposed project;
- one-page description of the milestones for the full period of the award; and a
- one page management plan in the case of multi-investigator teams.
Proposals not conforming to theses guidelines will be returned to the proposer without review.
Proposers are reminded to identify the program solicitation number (NSF 01-147) in the program announcement/solicitation block on the proposal Cover Sheet (NSF Form 1207). Compliance with this requirement is critical to determining the relevant proposal processing guidelines. Failure to submit this information may delay processing.
Cost sharing is not required in proposals submitted under this Program Solicitation.
Indirect Cost (F&A;) Limitations: Not Applicable.
Other Budgetary Limitations: Not Applicable.
Proposals must be submitted by the following date(s):
Letters of Intent (optional): September 14, 2001| November 2, 2001 | ; First Friday in November, yearly thereafter |
Letters of intent are due second Friday in September, yearly thereafter.
For the purposes of review logistics, we will appreciate a Letter of Intent, including one-page abstract of the proposal and list of co-PI's and their institutions, to be submitted to NSF by 5:00 PM, EST on the second Friday in September, by email to ngs-letter@nsf.gov.
Lack of submission of Letter of Intent will not preclude submission of full proposal. Letters of Intent will not be considered in lieu of full proposals.
Proposers are required to prepare and submit all proposals for this Program Solicitation through the FastLane system. Detailed instructions for proposal preparation and submission via FastLane are available at: http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/newstan.htm. For FastLane user support, call 1-800-673-6188 or e-mail fastlane@nsf.gov.
Submission of Signed Cover Sheets. The Authorized Organizational Representative (AOR) must electronically sign the proposal Cover Sheet to submit the required proposal certifications (see Chapter II, Section C of the Grant Proposal Guide for a listing of the certifications). The AOR must provide the required certifications within five working days following the electronic submission of the proposal. Further instructions regarding this process are available on the FastLane website at: http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov.
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Reviews of proposals submitted to NSF are solicited from peers with expertise in the substantive area of the proposed research or education project. These reviewers are selected by Program Officers charged with the oversight of the review process. NSF invites the proposer to suggest at the time of submission, the names of appropriate or inappropriate reviewers. Care is taken to ensure that reviewers have no conflicts with the proposer. Special efforts are made to recruit reviewers from non-academic institutions, minority-serving institutions, or adjacent disciplines to that principally addressed in the proposal.
Proposals will be reviewed against the following general review criteria established by the National Science Board. Following each criterion are potential considerations that the reviewer may employ in the evaluation. These are suggestions and not all will apply to any given proposal. Each reviewer will be asked to address only those that are relevant to the proposal and for which he/she is qualified to make judgements.
Principal Investigators should address the following elements in their proposal to provide reviewers with the information necessary to respond fully to both of the above-described NSF merit review criteria. NSF staff will give these elements careful consideration in making funding decisions.
The following criteria that reflect the specific objectives of the NGS program will also be considered in proposal evaluation:
If the research proposed involves a testbed, the extent to which that testbed advances understanding of computing, information processing and communications systems.
Additional information may be required on some or all of the following topics prior to making an award:
A summary rating and accompanying narrative will be completed and signed by each reviewer. In all cases, reviews are treated as confidential documents. Verbatim copies of reviews, excluding the names of the reviewers, are sent to the Principal Investigator/Project Director by the Program Director. In addition, the proposer will receive an explanation of the decision to award or decline funding.
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The opportunities described herein represent one, but not the only approach to support multidisciplinary research, and this announcement is intended as a complement to those activities rather than a replacement. In particular, the following activities are closely related to this announcement, and prospective proposers are urged to discuss their ideas with the contacts listed in order to determine the most appropriate programs for submission.
Cooperating CISE programs are:
The ACIR Advanced Computational Research (http://www.interact.nsf.gov/CISE/descriptions.nsf/PD/acr?progs?OpenDocument), and
C-CR Operating Systems and Compilers and the Computer Systems Architecture Programs (http://www.interact.nsf.gov/cise/descriptions.nsf/ccr_progs?OpenView).
Other programs related to NGS are the Special Projects and Advanced Networking Infrastructure programs (http://www.cise.nsf.gov/anir/index.html) in the ANIR Division.
Additional technical information related to the research directions fostered by this program announcement can be found in http://www.cise.nsf.gov/eia/nsg.
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