The purpose of the web page is to disseminate information regarding the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research 2008 Computer Science Program solicitation for Software Development Tools for Improved Ease-of-Use of Petascale Systems.  Please check back to this page often for updated information.

Link to the grant opportunity notice - DE-PS02-08ER08-19

This solicitation is not to be confused with the Office of Science Annual Notice for unsolicited proposals, DE-PS02-08ER08-01 for new grants or DE-PS02-08ER08-02 for renewals.  For general information on DOE Office of Science funding opportunities, including information for preparing and submitting applications, see the Office of Science Grants and Contracts Web Site.

A Letter of Intent (LOI) to submit a proposal must be submitted.  Applicants should submit the LOI as an e-mail attachment to petascaletools@ascr.doe.gov.  The subject line of the e-mail should be “Letter of Intent for Announcement DE-PS-08ER08-19”.  A fillable form template and additional information about the LOI is provided below.  Please do not include the petascaletools e-mail address in any correspondence between parties. Notification of receipt of the message will not be supplied.  A response either encouraging or discouraging the submission of a proposal will be supplied to the lead PI listed on the LOI only.  Be aware, the messages may be blocked by SPAM and/or junk-mail filters. Please check accordingly before contacting ASCR.  

Deadline for LOI submission is 5:00pm EST, May 12, 2008

Additional information is included in the announcement.  Please check back to this page for updated information.

Preferred Method of Submitting the LOI:

Use the prepared Word Letter of Intent Form.  Please complete all the fields on the form, save it, and then e-mail it as an attachment to petascaletools@ascr.doe.gov.  

Step by step instructions:
• Click the Word Letter of Intent Form link.
• Select Save at the File Download prompt.
• Select a location to which the file will be saved. The default name of the file is LOI.doc.
• Fill in all fields on the form.  All Fields are required to be completed and several fields will expand as necessary.
• Save the form.
• E-mail the saved file as an attachment to petascaletools@ascr.doe.gov before the deadline.

Alternate Method:

If the Word form is not a viable method, please use the form image as a guide.  Send a message that contains all of information found in the image in the body of an e-mail message to petascaletools@ascr.doe.gov.

Step by step instructions:
• Open the Letter of Intent Form Image and review it.
• Use the form image as a guide, noting that all fields are required.
• Send the information in the body of an e-mail message to petascaletools@ascr.doe.gov before the deadline.