TITLE: Dear Colleague Letter: OCI & Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability DATE: 1/25/2013 NSF 13-043 Dear Colleague Letter: OCI & Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability Date: January 25, 2013 The Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) is participating in the recently released solicitation Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS, [1]http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504842) as part of its CIF21 efforts. The Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS) program aims to support groundbreaking research leading to a new era of parallel computing. XPS seeks research re-evaluating, and possibly re-designing, the traditional computer hardware and software stack for today's heterogeneous parallel and distributed systems and exploring new holistic approaches to parallelism and scalability. Achieving the needed breakthroughs will require a collaborative effort among researchers representing all areas -- from the application layer down to the micro-architecture -- and will be built on new concepts and new foundational principles. OCI encourages proposals that include the potential of transition of XPS research to practice in ways that will: 1. Contribute to development and deployment of comprehensive, integrated, sustainable, and secure cyberinfrastructure at the national or international scale; 2. Have an effective cyberinfrastructure impact with clearly defined benefits across multiple research disciplines; and 3. Build on existing or upcoming OCI investments, as well as major cyberinfrastructure investments from other units. Additional context for OCI's interests in this solicitation can be found in: * Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21): [2]http://www.nsf.gov/cif21 * Advanced Computing Infrastructure: Vision and Strategic Plan (NSF 12-051): [3]http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12051 * A Vision and Strategy for Software for Science, Engineering, and Education: Cyberinfrastructure Framework for the 21st Century (NSF 12-113): [4]http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12113 Questions regarding the solicitation should be addressed to the appropriate program director as listed on the solicitation. References 1. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504842 2. http://www.nsf.gov/cif21 3. http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12051 4. http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12113