Funding for GENI Experiments

1. Funding for GENI Experiments GENI Experiment Workshop Princeton University June 29-30, 2010 Suzi Iacono, NSF/CISE

2. Submission Parameters • Mechanisms • EAGER (2 years; up to $300K) or supplement (1 year; up to 20%) • Funding limits - ~$100K to $200K for 2 years • What we want to fund • Students and travel to GECs • Due dates • July 6-7, 2010 • Future opportunities, too • Where to submit • CISE/CNS/Nets program/S. Iacono

3. Proposal Sections • Exciting research – what will you learn? • Clearly state the research problem • Frontiers of discovery is where we need to be • Details of the proposed experiments • Experiments should use multiple kinds of GENI resources • What GENI resources will you need? • Be explicit! Include software tools, e.g., measurement • Why your experiment could not be done without GENI

4. Additional Considerations • Two universities may be involved • Collaborative EAGERs • Still just students and their travel • Or two labs (same university) may be involved • You can ask for 1 student for each lab • But only in special cases given funding limitations

5. How we will decide • Limited funds of ~$2M for the set of experiments • NSF GENI team will decide prior to July 16 • Novelty + feasibility is key • We want a portfolio of experiments based on exciting research ideas potentially leading to transformative research results

6. Where to find me siacono@nsf.gov

7. Next Steps • Expectations for experimental service provision • Mark Berman will speak next on what the GPO expects to provide • A service provision plan will be available soon • A lot depends on the experiments we decide to fund