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NSF 26-510 | Cloud and High-Performance Computing — Computational Architecture

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The National Science Foundation is seeking proposals under solicitation nsf-seedfund-CH-CH2_STTR for the Cloud and High-Performance Computing topic, specifically focusing on Computational Architecture. This initiative aims to fund software or hardware innovations that significantly enhance the power, efficiency, and overall performance of cloud and high-performance computing platforms. Key areas of interest include improvements to energy management, data storage, latency, data integrity, availability, and cost reduction. This opportunity is a total small business set-aside under the SBIR/STTR mandate, restricting eligibility to organizations with fewer than 500 employees. While the focus is on computational architecture, the agency welcomes all proposals that demonstrate technical innovation and substantial commercial potential within the broader scope of cloud and high-performance computing.

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NSF seeks small business proposals for innovative cloud and high-performance computing architecture.

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518210 - Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related ServicesView NAICS

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The Cloud and High-Performance Computing (HPC) topic focuses on innovations that result in substantial improvements to cloud computing or high-performance computing platforms. These improvements may be to computing power and efficiency, energy management, data storage, latency, data integrity and availability, cost, or any other factor of importance in such platforms, and may result from software- or hardware-based innovations. These subtopic areas are meant to serve as examples; all proposals with technical innovation and significant commercial potential are welcome, regardless of the specific area of focus of the project.
## Subtopic: Computational Architecture

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