Cyberinfrastructure Funding Opportunities

NSF Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS)
A virtual organization is a group of individuals whose members and resources may be dispersed geographically, but who function as a coherent unit through the use of cyberinfrastructure. Virtual organizations are increasingly central to the science and engineering projects funded by the National Science Foundation. Focused investments in sociotechnical analyses of virtual organizations are necessary to harness their full potential and the promise they offer for discovery and learning.
Full Proposal Due:  June 2, 2008
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503256

NSF Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP)
Digital data are increasingly both the products of research and the starting point for new research and education activities.  The ability to re-purpose data – to use it in innovative ways and combinations not envisioned by those who created the data – requires that it be possible to find and understand data of many types and from many sources. Interoperability (the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged) is fundamental to meeting this requirement.   This NSF crosscutting program supports community efforts to provide for broad interoperability through the development of mechanisms such as robust data and metadata conventions, ontologies, and taxonomies.
Full proposal Due: July 23, 2008
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=502112

NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
CDI seeks ambitious, transformative, multidisciplinary research proposals within or across the following three thematic areas:  
From Data to Knowledge: enhancing human cognition and generating new knowledge from a wealth of heterogeneous digital data;
Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and Social Systems: deriving fundamental insights on systems comprising multiple interacting elements;  and
Building Virtual Organizations: enhancing discovery and innovation by bringing people and resources together across institutional, geographical and cultural boundaries.
Letter of Intent Due: September 30, 2008
Preliminary Proposal Due: November 4, 2008
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503163

NSF Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure (STCI)
The primary purpose of the Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure Program (STCI) is to support work leading to the development and/or demonstration of innovative cyberinfrastructure services for science and engineering research and education that fill gaps left by more targeted funding opportunities.  In addition, it will consider highly innovative cyberinfrastructure education, outreach and training proposals that lie outside the scope of targeted solicitations.
Full Proposal Due: August 14, 2008
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500066

NSF Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet)
The new types of organizations envisioned in this solicitation will integrate library and archival sciences, cyberinfrastructure, computer and information sciences, and domain science expertise
     provide reliable digital preservation, access, integration, and analysis capabilities for science and/or engineering data over a decades-long timeline;
     continuously anticipate and adapt to changes in technologies and in user needs and expectations;
     engage at the frontiers of computer and information science and cyberinfrastructure with research and development to drive the leading edge forward; and serve as component elements of an interoperable data preservation and access network.
Preliminary Proposal Due:  October 6, 2008
http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07601

NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH)
The Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems competition promotes quantitative, interdisciplinary analyses of relevant human and natural system processes and complex interactions among human and natural systems at diverse scales
Full Proposal Due: November 19, 2008
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13681

NSF High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering
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.
Full Proposal Due: November 28, 2008
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503148

NSF Petascale Computing Resource Allocations  (PRAC)
In 2011, a new NSF-funded petascale computing system, Blue Waters, will go online at the University of Illinois.  The goal of this facility is to open up new possibilities in science and engineering by providing computational capability that makes it possible for investigators to tackle much larger and more complex research challenges across a wide spectrum of domains.  The purpose of this solicitation is to invite research groups that have a compelling science or engineering challenge that will require petascale computing resources to submit requests for allocations of resources on the Blue Waters system.
Full Proposal Due: March 17, 2009
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503224