High-Capacity Optical Networking and Deeply Integrated Middleware Services for Distributed Petascale Science

Post Date

February 16th 2010

Application Due Date

April 23rd 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

DE-FOA-0000264

CFDA Number(s)

81.049

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement
Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

10

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

All types of domestic entities are eligible to apply as the lead institution, except other Federal agencies, 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.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $3500000

• Award Range:

  $175000 - $750000

Grant Description

The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces its interest in receiving grant applications for research to address the end-to-end challenges of terabits (Tbits/s) networks and middleware based on the emerging 100 GigE (Gigabits Ethernet) technologies. The emergence of 100 GigE has opened the terabits networking era, making it possible for the aggregate capacity of backbone networks to reach Tbits/s and beyond. Innovative networking technologies will be needed to enable networks to operate efficiently Tbits/s speeds. Existing protocols, host systems stacks, network interface cards, protection and recovery mechanism, data transfer protocols, cyber security systems, network provisioning schemes, etc., may not easily scale to deliver terabits networking performance critical for DOE science mission.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Energy

• Office:

  Chicago Service Center

• Agency Contact:

  Marilyn M. Oyler, Grants Analyst, 301-903-3604
  marilyn.oyler@science.doe.gov
  Thomas D. Ndousse-Fetter, Program Manager, 301-903-9960
  thomas.ndousse-fetter@science.doe.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  marilyn.oyler@science.doe.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  marilyn.oyler@science.doe.gov

• More Information:

  FedConnect