NSF Awards Framework Grant for IOWarp
On August 5, 2024, the National Science Foundation awarded the collaborative Frameworks grant "IOWarp: Bending the I/O Fabric for Advancing AI-Infused Scientific Workflows". GRC leads the project under award OAC-2411318 (opens in a new tab), with Dr. Xian-He Sun as PI and Dr. Anthony Kougkas and Dr. Gerd Heber (The HDF Group) as co-PIs. The University of Utah is the partner institution under award OAC-2411319 (opens in a new tab), led by Dr. Jacob Hochhalter with Dr. Vivek Srikumar. Both awards run from August 2024 through July 2029.
The project
The award abstract describes IOWarp as a modular data management platform for scientific workflows, particularly those that use AI. It targets data access times on hardware such as NVMe SSDs, CXL devices, and CPU-GPU co-designs, and builds on the team's prior NSF-funded research on multi-tiered storage, including Hermes.