Prof. El-Ghazawi Receives NIST Cooperative Agreement

Prof. Tarek El-Ghazawi has received a NIST cooperative agreement, with initial funding of $125,000 for the first year, for the project “A Scalable Heterogeneous Architecture for Big Data.”  Prof. El-Ghazawi and his graduate students will work directly with NIST scientists on the development of a new reconfigurable hardware-software computer architecture that can guide the design of high-performance systems to enable big data science.  The envisioned test bed will simplify the rapid deployment and testing of a range of multilayer configurations based on high-performance heterogeneous hardware architectures, resource management services, computational frameworks, high-performance input/output services, and application and resource monitors.