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Opportunity Summary:

The National Science Foundation (NSF) funding opportunity titled "Petascale Computing Resource Allocations" (Funding Opportunity Number 14-518) was created to support research teams seeking access to the NSF-funded Blue Waters petascale supercomputing system, which was deployed in 2013 at the University of Illinois. The central idea behind the program is to expand what is scientifically and technically possible by giving investigators access to extremely large-scale computing power, enabling them to pursue research questions that are too computationally demanding for typical campus clusters or smaller national systems. Blue Waters was positioned as a capability resource intended to push boundaries across many fields, so the solicitation is framed broadly and welcomes projects spanning a wide range of science and engineering domains.

The solicitation invites research groups to submit proposals requesting allocations of computing time and related resources on Blue Waters. To be competitive, applicants are expected to present a clear, compelling science or engineering challenge that genuinely requires petascale-level computation. In practice, that means proposals should go beyond simply stating that large computing power would be helpful; they should explain why the research problem cannot be addressed at smaller scale and how the project will take advantage of petascale capabilities to achieve outcomes that would otherwise be impractical or impossible. Proposers are also expected to demonstrate readiness to use the system effectively, which typically implies having appropriate methods, software approaches, workflows, and a team that can scale codes and analyses to very large numbers of compute cores and substantial data volumes.

A stated program goal is community-building around advanced high-performance computing, and for that reason proposals from, or including, junior researchers are explicitly encouraged. The opportunity is designed not only to produce research results, but also to grow the pool of investigators who can successfully operate at the petascale level, strengthening the broader scientific community's capacity to use leadership-class computing resources.

Administratively, this is a discretionary NSF grant opportunity under the activity category of science, technology, and other research and development. The funding instrument type is a grant, and the CFDA number listed is 47.070 (Computer and Information Science and Engineering). The opportunity anticipated around 15 awards, with an estimated total funding amount of $500,000 and an award floor of $40,000. Cost sharing or matching is not required. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning it is open to any type of entity, subject to any clarifications that may appear in the full solicitation text (NSF Publication 14-518).

Key dates show the program was originally posted on December 16, 2013, with multiple full proposal deadlines across several years: March 10, 2014; November 14, 2014; November 13, 2015; and November 9, 2016. The record indicates a "current closing date" of November 13, 2015, and an archive date of December 9, 2016, which signals that the opportunity, as described in this notice, is no longer active and was part of a time-bounded set of allocation cycles.

For applicants needing help accessing the full announcement, the notice directs technical access issues to NSF grants.gov support at grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov, and it references the full solicitation as NSF Publication 14-518 for complete program requirements, instructions, and any additional eligibility details.

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