# NSF Software Initiative for Julia?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nsf-software-initiative-for-julia/801>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [December 8, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nsf-software-initiative-for-julia/801 "2016-12-08T03:38:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![gwhammett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d07c76/32.png) [@gwhammett](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gwhammett)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nsf-software-initiative-for-julia/801/1 "2016-12-08T03:38:14Z")

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Could Julia benefit from being part of this NSF call for proposals on “Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation”? (It’s not a good match for myself, but perhaps some other university researchers who work with/on Julia would be interested in proposing something?)

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Subject: Updated NSF funding opportunity & webinar: Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SSE, SSI, S2I2)  
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 23:59:08 +0000  
From: Henry Warchall [hwarchal@NSF.GOV](mailto:hwarchal@NSF.GOV)  
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Dear Colleagues,

An updated NSF program solicitation (NSF 17-526) is now available:

Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SSE, SSI, S2I2)

Please see

[Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation | NSF - National Science Foundation](http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503489)

for details.

A webinar (online seminar) that will provide an overview of the program and its updates is scheduled for:

December 13, 2016 at 3:00 pm EST

To participate in the webinar, please see the information on the page

[Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovations (SI2) Program Webinar | NSF - National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=190551)

Proposal submission deadline dates:

– March 7, 2017 for SSE proposals  
– April 11, 2017 for S2I2 Conceptualization proposals  
– September 19, 2017 for SSI proposals

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From the program synopsis:

The SI2 program focuses on supporting robust, reliable, and sustainable software that will support and advance sustained scientific innovation and discovery. […] The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) welcomes proposals building computational tools that have broad application in mathematical sciences and related areas.

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nsf-software-initiative-for-julia/801/2 "2016-12-08T04:07:25Z")

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I’m only a grad student so I don’t know if I could participate in any funding thing. However, if you want involvement of JuliaDiffEq, I’d be interested.

I think the blog post I wrote today really shows how Julia allows for basic packages to be a much stronger Base than other libraries. I think a really compelling proposal can be written about bringing the modular development of the different orgs together.

> **[Modular Algorithms for Scientific Computing in Julia - Stochastic Lifestyle](http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/modular-algorithms-scientific-computing-julia/)**
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> When most people think of the Julia programming language, they usually think about its speed. Sure, Julia is fast, but what I emphasized in a previous blog post is that what makes Julia tick is not just-in-time compilation, rather it's...