NSF Org:	OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
Recipient:	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date:	August 29, 2023
Latest Amendment Date:	July 26, 2024
Award Number:	2322308
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Kevin Thompson kthompso@nsf.gov  (703)292-4220 OAC  Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE  Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date:	September 1, 2023
End Date:	August 31, 2025 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$500,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$599,999.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2023 = $500,000.00 FY 2024 = $99,999.00
History of Investigator:	Leonardo Bobadilla (Principal Investigator) bobadilla@cs.fiu.edu Julio Ibarra (Co-Principal Investigator) Jason Liu (Co-Principal Investigator) Michael Kirgan (Co-Principal Investigator) Jayantha Obeysekera (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	Florida International University 11200 SW 8TH ST MIAMI FL  US  33199-2516 (305)348-2494
Sponsor Congressional District:	26
Primary Place of Performance:	Florida International University 11200 SW 8TH ST MIAMI FL  US  33199-2516
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	26
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	Q3KCVK5S9CP1
Parent UEI:	Q3KCVK5S9CP1
NSF Program(s):	NDCC-Natl Discvry Cloud Climat, CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE, Campus Cyberinfrastructure
Primary Program Source:	01002324DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002425DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01AB2324DB R&RA DRSA DEFC AAB
Program Reference Code(s):
Program Element Code(s):	295Y00, 723100, 808000
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.070

ABSTRACT

The South Florida region is home to nearly 10 million people, and the population is growing. The region faces several challenges, such as rising sea levels and flooding, harmful algae blooms, water contamination, and wildlife habit loss, which affects the economy and the welfare of its population. Florida International University (FIU) will build EnviStor, which aims to be a centrally managed Petabyte scale storage system that is also a clearing house for supporting interdisciplinary research and modeling involving both built and natural environments in South Florida. EnviStor provides opportunities for students (75% of whom coming from underrepresented groups in STEM) and faculty to enhance their knowledge of database management, focusing on interoperability.

EnviStor facilitates inter and intra-campus capabilities, augmenting the current FIU storage capabilities from the Terabyte to the Petabyte scale through a low-latency, high-performance, and cost-effective architecture to facilitate the creation of science data products. Data backups will be sent to the cloud, ensuring data preservation. In addition, the architecture will include interfaces that facilitate the sharing of datasets at intra- and inter-campus levels. EnviStor will share 20% of its storage resources by federating with the OSDF (Open Science Data Federation) and leveraging FIU?s Dataverse repository. This effort is also supported by National Discovery Cloud for Climate (NDC-C) resources.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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