Award Abstract # 1740398
NSF/CISE Computer Systems Research 2017 PI Meeting

NSF Org: CNS
Division Of Computer and Network Systems
Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE
Initial Amendment Date: April 13, 2017
Latest Amendment Date: April 13, 2017
Award Number: 1740398
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Matt Mutka
CNS
 Division Of Computer and Network Systems
CSE
 Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date: April 15, 2017
End Date: March 31, 2018 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $212,946.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $212,946.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2017 = $212,946.00
History of Investigator:
  • Erik Saule (Principal Investigator)
    esaule@uncc.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 UNIVERSITY CITY BLVD
CHARLOTTE
NC  US  28223-0001
(704)687-1888
Sponsor Congressional District: 12
Primary Place of Performance: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
NC  US  28223-0001
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
12
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): JB33DT84JNA5
Parent UEI: NEYCH3CVBTR6
NSF Program(s): CSR-Computer Systems Research
Primary Program Source: 01001718DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 7354, 7556
Program Element Code(s): 735400
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.070

ABSTRACT

The Computing Systems Research (CSR) program of the NSF funds a wide
range of systems research including (but not limited to) systems for
Internet-of-Things (which makes our homes and city smarter), systems to
make more affordable and energy-efficient our Supercomputers (which
furthers medical research, our understanding of the universe, and
warns the population of tornadoes and hurricanes, to name a few),
systems to improve the usefulness, security, and reliability of our
smartphones, and systems to secure and scale the cloud (which has
expanded the capabilities of IT systems while dramatically decreasing
the associated costs). The project organizes and funds a community
event for all the PIs of awards from the CSR program. At this event,
the researchers funded by the CSR program will have the opportunity to
meet at-large and share and discuss their research and ideas for the
future.

The project organizes a PI meeting that includes mostly three types of
activities. Plenary presentations will give a forum for the most
remarkable research in the field to be presented and diffused to a
large audience. These presentations are also useful to set the tone
and quality of expected research for the PIs of more recent
awards. Poster presentations of ongoing award enable casual scientific
conversation and person-to-person research diffusion; they are
expected to strengthen the social interaction between CSR researchers
and to lead to new collaborations and synergy in the field. Breakout
sessions will focus on subfield of systems research to summarize
recent successful methodology and identify problems and opportunities
for future work. The project provides a forum for systems researchers to meet and to
form new collaborations, to discuss and to disseminate successful
efforts, to identify the problems and opportunities of the future, and
to maximize the impact of subsequent systems research efforts.

PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT

Disclaimer

This Project Outcomes Report for the General Public is displayed verbatim as submitted by the Principal Investigator (PI) for this award. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are those of the PI and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSF has not approved or endorsed its content.

A Principal Investigator meeting of the Computer System Research community was organized in Orlando, Fl on Friday June 2nd 2017. Over 90 Principal Investigator attended the meeting to present results and discuss the direction of the field.

The event enables the presentation of a variety of work by PI funded by the NSF Computer System Research cluster. These presentations contributed to the wide diffusion of recent, cutting-edge techniques to the broad CSR community. Also PI to PI discussion were enabled by a wide forum supported by poster.

This event enabled the scientific community to interact with NSF program manager in two-way discussion. The view of the priorities and organization of the NSF was expressed to the community through this forum. Also the community was able to provide feedback to the NSF through discussions of subgroup of PIs that were lead and summarized by prominent figures in the field. The feedback goes from the identification of new areas of research, to logistical issues that could be solved by means available to the NSF.

The meeting was colocated with the IEEE IPDPS conference, a well established conference in parallel and distributed computing, one of the area of the Computer System Research community. This enabled the interaction between many Computer System Research PIs and the broader parallel and distributed computing community.


Last Modified: 08/12/2018
Modified by: Erik Saule

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