An increasing number of National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) solicitations, including the CISE Core Programs (for which SMALL Projects do not have a submission deadline), are eligible for cloud access via the CloudBank portal to the AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM clouds.
These clouds offer enormous capacity and rich software stacks. Another plus: access through CloudBank is not subject to indirect cost.
For further information:
- An AWS Public Sector Blog post by Deep Medhi (NSF) and Sanjay Padhi (AWS):
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/simplifying-access-cloud-resources-researchers-cloudbank/ - A webinar featuring Deep Medhi, Sanjay Padhi, and Mike Norman (UCSD;
PI of NSF’s CloudBank effort):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtdhxFOrIcM&feature=youtu.be - CloudBank:
https://www.cloudbank.org/ - July 2018 workshop report “Enabling Computer and Information Science
and Engineering Research and Education in the Cloud”:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeannette_Wing/publication/329911307_Enabling_Computer_and_Information_Science_and_Engineering_Research_and_Education_in_the_Cloud/links/5c224582a6fdccfc7068fc4c/Enabling-Computer-and-Information-Science-and-Engineering-Research-and-Education-in-the-Cloud.pdf