2138259
Cooperative Agreement
Overview
Grant Description
Track 1: Access Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services (RAMPS) - The Carnegie-Mellon University team provides allocation services as part of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program.
The Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services (RAMPS) project is transforming the process of allocation for the ever-evolving range of NSF-funded resources in the ACCESS ecosystem. This ecosystem includes many of the most powerful computing, storage, and related cyberinfrastructure resources available to the U.S. research community. These resources provide essential capabilities for advancing science and education across all fields of science.
The RAMPS allocation environment offers a welcoming gateway that inspires collaboration and participation in the pursuit of scientific discovery while continuing to provide an essential gatekeeping function when necessary to balance demand for resources with the available supply. The RAMPS marketplace is toppling many current allocations approaches by removing barriers between researchers and their needed resources. RAMPS creates an open, inviting, and democratized marketplace.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the allocations environment is a central focus of the project. RAMPS is working to ensure the full participation of women, persons with disabilities, and underserved populations in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
RAMPS provides an efficient, scalable, and simplified interface for researchers, educators, and students to request resources in support of their research, educational, and workforce development endeavors. The RAMPS model of four allocation tiers, i.e., Explore, Discover, Ramp-Up, or Maximize, gives researchers with different needs multiple entry point options which optimize trade-offs between allocation application process efficiency, review effort, review turnaround times, and availability of resources.
For the resource providers in the ecosystem, RAMPS streamlines the process of integrating new systems and services. Built with an emphasis on modularity, extensibility, and decentralization, the RAMPS software platform is flexible enough to accommodate allocations for current and future computational and non-computational resources and services.
Access credits, a universal allocation currency, and standardized allocation tiers allow RAMPS to accelerate allocation requests and reviews. Finally, through a suite of innovative pilots, RAMPS is introducing disruptive features to the ecosystem and allocations marketplace to: inform current and future enhancements; decentralize the entry points for access allocations by building a set of campus and regional on-ramps; integrate cloud resources; define computational workflows as allocable resources; and enhance the allocations infrastructure to serve sensor nets and instrumentation.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
The Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services (RAMPS) project is transforming the process of allocation for the ever-evolving range of NSF-funded resources in the ACCESS ecosystem. This ecosystem includes many of the most powerful computing, storage, and related cyberinfrastructure resources available to the U.S. research community. These resources provide essential capabilities for advancing science and education across all fields of science.
The RAMPS allocation environment offers a welcoming gateway that inspires collaboration and participation in the pursuit of scientific discovery while continuing to provide an essential gatekeeping function when necessary to balance demand for resources with the available supply. The RAMPS marketplace is toppling many current allocations approaches by removing barriers between researchers and their needed resources. RAMPS creates an open, inviting, and democratized marketplace.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the allocations environment is a central focus of the project. RAMPS is working to ensure the full participation of women, persons with disabilities, and underserved populations in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
RAMPS provides an efficient, scalable, and simplified interface for researchers, educators, and students to request resources in support of their research, educational, and workforce development endeavors. The RAMPS model of four allocation tiers, i.e., Explore, Discover, Ramp-Up, or Maximize, gives researchers with different needs multiple entry point options which optimize trade-offs between allocation application process efficiency, review effort, review turnaround times, and availability of resources.
For the resource providers in the ecosystem, RAMPS streamlines the process of integrating new systems and services. Built with an emphasis on modularity, extensibility, and decentralization, the RAMPS software platform is flexible enough to accommodate allocations for current and future computational and non-computational resources and services.
Access credits, a universal allocation currency, and standardized allocation tiers allow RAMPS to accelerate allocation requests and reviews. Finally, through a suite of innovative pilots, RAMPS is introducing disruptive features to the ecosystem and allocations marketplace to: inform current and future enhancements; decentralize the entry points for access allocations by building a set of campus and regional on-ramps; integrate cloud resources; define computational workflows as allocable resources; and enhance the allocations infrastructure to serve sensor nets and instrumentation.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Awardee
Funding Goals
THE GOAL OF THIS FUNDING OPPORTUNITY, "ADVANCED CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE COORDINATION ECOSYSTEM: SERVICES & SUPPORT", IS IDENTIFIED IN THE LINK: HTTPS://WWW.NSF.GOV/PUBLICATIONS/PUB_SUMM.JSP?ODS_KEY=NSF21555
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
15213-3890
United States
Geographic Scope
Single Zip Code
Related Opportunity
21-555
Analysis Notes
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 722% from $1,527,611 to $12,561,813.
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded
RAMPS: Transforming NSF-Funded Resource Allocations Scientific Advancement
Cooperative Agreement 2138259
worth $12,561,813
from the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in May 2022 with work to be completed primarily in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States.
The grant
has a duration of 5 years and
was awarded through assistance program 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 5/19/25
Period of Performance
5/1/22
Start Date
4/30/27
End Date
Funding Split
$12.6M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$12.6M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Subgrant Awards
Disclosed subgrants for 2138259
Transaction History
Modifications to 2138259
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
2138259
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Private Institution Of Higher Education
Awarding Office
490509 OFC OF ADV CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
Funding Office
490509 OFC OF ADV CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
Awardee UEI
U3NKNFLNQ613
Awardee CAGE
97668
Performance District
PA-12
Senators
Robert Casey
John Fetterman
John Fetterman
Budget Funding
Federal Account | Budget Subfunction | Object Class | Total | Percentage |
---|---|---|---|---|
Research and Related Activities, National Science Foundation (049-0100) | General science and basic research | Grants, subsidies, and contributions (41.0) | $11,061,814 | 100% |
Modified: 5/19/25