The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently released aprogram to which Wayne State University is allowed only a limited number of submissions. To that end, the Office of the Vice President for Research is requesting that faculty members interested in either of the following programs submit materials to an internal screening so that it may determine who may be allowed to apply.

High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering
Internal Deadline: Friday, December 16, 2005

NSF’s five-year goal for high performance computing (HPC) is to enable petascale science and engineering through the deployment and support of a world-class HPC environment comprising the most capable combination of HPC assets available to the academic community. By the year 2010, the petascale HPC environment will enable investigations of computationally challenging problems that require computing systems capable of delivering sustained performance approaching 1015 floating point operations per second (petaflops) on real applications, that consume large amounts of memory, and/or that work with very large data sets. Among other things, researchers will be able to perform simulations that are intrinsically multi-scale or that involve the simultaneous interaction of multiple processes.

HPC Resource Providers - those organizations willing to acquire, deploy and operate HPC systems in service to the broad science and engineering research and education community - play a key role in the provision and support of a national HPC environment. With this solicitation, NSF requests proposals from organizations willing to serve as HPC Resource Providers, and who propose to acquire and deploy a new, and/or upgrade an existing, HPC system.

Wayne State University may submit only two proposals to this program. Interested applicants are asked to submit the following:

· A brief description (no more than 3-4 pages) of the proposed research;
· A clear declaration of the proposed P.I. for the research and associated WSU personnel; and
· The signature of the appropriate college dean and department chair.

Applications should be sent to:

OVPR
Room 6405.3
5057 Woodward

All proposals must be submitted by noon of Friday, December 16, 2005. Because of the high competition for this program, all pre-proposals must be received by this date.

Thank you for your cooperation. Guidelines for the program are available at the URL: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05625/nsf05625.htm .