DOE’s HPC4EI Program Issues Special Solicitation for US Manufacturing Institutes and AMO Consortia
March 17, 2020 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Program has issued a special solicitation for U.S. Manufacturing Institutes and AMO Consortia. Sponsored by the HPC4Manufacturing Program with funding support from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO), the special solicitation will invite U.S. Manufacturing Institutes, AMO consortia, and their member companies to engage in short-term, collaborative projects with DOE’s National Laboratories.
The HPC4Mfg Program under the HPC4EI umbrella program is designed to spur the use of national lab supercomputing resources and expertise to advance innovation in energy-efficient manufacturing and new materials that will enable advanced energy technologies. Selected industry partners will be granted access to high performance computing (HPC) facilities and experienced staff at DOE’s National Laboratories. The collaborations will address key challenges in U.S. manufacturing by applying modeling, simulation, and data analysis to relevant problems with the intent to improve energy efficiency, increase productivity, reduce cycle time, enable next-generation technologies, investigate intensified processes, lower energy cost, and accelerate innovation.
Projects must demonstrate potential impact to energy efficiency in manufacturing with a potential for broad national impact. We will solicit proposals that require HPC modeling and simulation to enable impactful manufacturing-process improvements resulting in reduced energy consumption and/or increased productivity.
Eligibility for this program is limited to entities that manufacture products or operate systems in the United States for commercial applications and organizations that support them. Selected projects will be awarded up to $300,000 to support computing cycles and work performed by the national lab partners. All DOE National Laboratories are eligible to participate. The industry partner must provide a participant contribution of at least 20% of the total project funding. Project durations are for one year. The HPC4EI/HPC4Mfg Program anticipates making multiple awards, subject to the availability of funding, for the HPC4Mfg Program.
Concept paper deadline is April 21, 2020. In partnership with Idaho National Laboratory, applicants can now apply electronically using the HPC4EI proposal system.
HPC4EI will host informational webinars on March 23 and April 2. View additional information for this funding opportunity including topic areas of interest, webinar registration, and electronic application portal.
by visiting the HPC4EI website.
Funding opportunity is also posted on Sam.gov.
Source: HPC4EnergyInnovation
