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ENERGY-EFFICIENT LIGHT-WAVE INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY ENABLING NETWORKS THAT ENHANCE DATACENTERS (ENLITENED)
Agency Overview:
The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), an organization within the Department of Energy, is chartered by Congress in the America COMPETES Act of 2007 (P.L.
110-69), as amended by the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (P.L.
111-358), to support
the creation of transformational energy technologies and systems through funding and managing Research and Development (R&D) efforts.
Originally chartered in 2007, the Agency was first funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 200 9. The mission of ARPA-E is to identify and fund research to translate science into breakthrough energy technologies that are too risky for the private sector and that, if successfully developed, will create the foundation for entirely new industries.
Successful projects will address at least one of ARPA-E’s two Mission Areas:
1. Enhance the economic and energy security of the United States through the development of energy technologies that result in:
a.
reductions of imports of energy from foreign sources; b.
reductions of energy-related emissions, including greenhouse gases; and c.
improvement in the energy efficiency of all economic sectors.
2. Ensure that the United States maintains a technological lead in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies.
Program Overview:
The ARPA-E ENLITENED (ENergy-efficient Light-wave Integrated Technology Enabling Networks that Enhance Datacenters) program seeks to provide a transformative change - to achieve an overall doubling in datacenter energy efficiency in 10 years through deployment of novel network topologies enabled by integrated photonics technologies.
ARPA-E estimates that if the technical challenges posed by ENLITENED can be overcome, these alone would reduce projected US energy use by about 1% after 10 years and realize at least twice the number of datacenter transactions with the same amount of energy.
Industry projections show that in order to achieve future datacenter performance requirements, metal interconnects must be increasingly replaced by photonic technologies, yet costs for deployment are often prohibitive and energy efficiency is not necessarily the highest priority in the commercial sector [11, 15, 16].
Though a broad industrial consensus pushes toward further photonic integration in switches and other datacenter components [11,16,18], in some cases, large companies will build another 80 MW datacenter to meet demand, rather than increase efficiency with photonics, due to a combination of reliability risks, cost and limited component supply.
To overcome metal interconnect limitations on future datacenter energy-efficiency performance, ENLITENED will target the critical packaging and integration challenges needed to exploit the inherent performance advantages of dense photonic interconnects and switching technology at the chip-scale within datacenters.
Specifically, ENLITENED will target packaging and integration of novel and efficient photonics-enabled hardware systems that can demonstrate at least a 2-fold increase in energy efficiency at the datacenter level.
To validate hardware solutions, ENLITENED will also entail modeling and simulation of the new datacenter architectures and data traffic protocols under realistic workloads, to provide quantifiable measures to validate transformative design strategies for future datacenters and retrofits.
To obtain a copy of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) please go to the ARPA-E website at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov.
ARPA-E will not review or consider concept papers submitted through other means.
For detailed guidance on using ARPA-E eXCHANGE, please refer to the ARPA-E eXCHANGE User Guide (https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Manuals.aspx).
The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), an organization within the Department of Energy, is chartered by Congress in the America COMPETES Act of 2007 (P.L.
110-69), as amended by the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (P.L.
111-358), to support
the creation of transformational energy technologies and systems through funding and managing Research and Development (R&D) efforts.
Originally chartered in 2007, the Agency was first funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 200 9. The mission of ARPA-E is to identify and fund research to translate science into breakthrough energy technologies that are too risky for the private sector and that, if successfully developed, will create the foundation for entirely new industries.
Successful projects will address at least one of ARPA-E’s two Mission Areas:
1. Enhance the economic and energy security of the United States through the development of energy technologies that result in:
a.
reductions of imports of energy from foreign sources; b.
reductions of energy-related emissions, including greenhouse gases; and c.
improvement in the energy efficiency of all economic sectors.
2. Ensure that the United States maintains a technological lead in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies.
Program Overview:
The ARPA-E ENLITENED (ENergy-efficient Light-wave Integrated Technology Enabling Networks that Enhance Datacenters) program seeks to provide a transformative change - to achieve an overall doubling in datacenter energy efficiency in 10 years through deployment of novel network topologies enabled by integrated photonics technologies.
ARPA-E estimates that if the technical challenges posed by ENLITENED can be overcome, these alone would reduce projected US energy use by about 1% after 10 years and realize at least twice the number of datacenter transactions with the same amount of energy.
Industry projections show that in order to achieve future datacenter performance requirements, metal interconnects must be increasingly replaced by photonic technologies, yet costs for deployment are often prohibitive and energy efficiency is not necessarily the highest priority in the commercial sector [11, 15, 16].
Though a broad industrial consensus pushes toward further photonic integration in switches and other datacenter components [11,16,18], in some cases, large companies will build another 80 MW datacenter to meet demand, rather than increase efficiency with photonics, due to a combination of reliability risks, cost and limited component supply.
To overcome metal interconnect limitations on future datacenter energy-efficiency performance, ENLITENED will target the critical packaging and integration challenges needed to exploit the inherent performance advantages of dense photonic interconnects and switching technology at the chip-scale within datacenters.
Specifically, ENLITENED will target packaging and integration of novel and efficient photonics-enabled hardware systems that can demonstrate at least a 2-fold increase in energy efficiency at the datacenter level.
To validate hardware solutions, ENLITENED will also entail modeling and simulation of the new datacenter architectures and data traffic protocols under realistic workloads, to provide quantifiable measures to validate transformative design strategies for future datacenters and retrofits.
To obtain a copy of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) please go to the ARPA-E website at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov.
ARPA-E will not review or consider concept papers submitted through other means.
For detailed guidance on using ARPA-E eXCHANGE, please refer to the ARPA-E eXCHANGE User Guide (https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Manuals.aspx).
Related Programs
Advanced Research and Projects Agency - Energy Financial Assistance Program
Department of Energy
Agency: Department of Energy
Office: Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy
Estimated Funding: $25,000,000
Office: Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy
Estimated Funding: $25,000,000
Who's Eligible
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
ARPA-E eXCHANGE
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Please see Section III.A.
of DE-FOA-0001566 for more information on the following eligibility information: 1.
INDIVIDUALS 2.
DOMESTIC ENTITIES 3.
FOREIGN ENTITIES 4.
CONSORTIUM ENTITIES.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov
Contact:
ARPA-E Contracting Officer ARPA-E-CO@hq.doe.gov
Agency Email Description:
Funding Opportunity Contact
Agency Email:
ARPA-E-CO@hq.doe.gov
Date Posted:
2016-06-10
Application Due Date:
2016-07-25
Archive Date:
2017-06-09
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