Advanced Computing Systems & Services Program Webinar

The NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure has released an updated solicitation for the Advanced Computing Systems & Services (ACSS): Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research Program. NSF 23-518 seeks proposals for organizations willing to serve as resource providers for the ACSS program. Resource providers would (1) provide advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources in production operations to support the full range of computational- and data-intensive research across all of science and engineering (S&E), and (2) ensure democratized and equitable access to the proposed resources. The current solicitation is intended to complement previous NSF investments in advanced computational infrastructure by provisioning resources, broadly defined in this solicitation to include systems and/or services, in two categories:

• Category I, Capacity Resources: production computational resources maximizing the capacity provided to support the broad range of computation and data analytics needs in S&E research; and

• Category II, Innovative Prototypes/Testbeds: innovative forward-looking capabilities deploying novel technologies, architectures, usage modes, etc., and exploring new target applications, methods, and paradigms for S&E discoveries.

This webinar will orient potential proposers on the ACSS program, review the revised NSF 23-518 solicitation, and include a Q&A session to help improve the quality of proposals.