# Collaborative Research: Elements: Computational Storage Virtualization for Accelerating Data-Driven Scientific Applications on Supercomputers

> **NSF 01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT** · Washington State University (WA) · $479,358

## Abstract

With the emergence of computational storage devices and smart storage solutions, new system-level support is needed to enable data-driven scientific applications to efficiently access and utilize underlying compute and storage resources. This project contributes by creating a new basic toolchain and system technologies for such systems and by evaluating them with representative scientific applications and data analytics. It has the potential to impact other scientific domains because data-driven scientific applications are used in many scientific and engineering domains, including national security, power system reliability, and food security. The project will provide research training in Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) and AI for undergraduate students and provide them with an educational pathway to pursue advanced degrees.

This collaborative and interdisciplinary project seeks to bring experts in computer systems, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), high-performance computing (HPC), and domain scientists together to design and implement a virtual computational storage system λ-HDF5. The project is driven by real use cases and built on state-of-the-art HPC and machine-learning cyberinfrastructure. The project has three specific goals. First, the project will develop an HDF5-compatible interface and provide support for a wide variety  of computer kernels. Second, it will identify, dispatch, and execute compute kernels on faster devices across multiple I/O layers in

## Key facts

- **NSF award ID:** 2512982
- **Awardee organization:** Washington State University (WA)
- **SAM.gov UEI:** XRJSGX384TD6
- **PI:** Xuechen Zhang
- **Primary program:** 01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
- **All programs:** Software Institutes
- **Estimated total:** $479,358
- **Funds obligated:** $479,358
- **Transaction type:** Standard Grant
- **Period:** 06/15/2025 → 12/31/2025

## Primary source

NSF Award Search: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2512982

## Citation

> US National Science Foundation, Award 2512982, Collaborative Research: Elements: Computational Storage Virtualization for Accelerating Data-Driven Scientific Applications on Supercomputers. Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-07 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nsf/2512982. Licensed CC0.

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