U.S. Department of Energy: Analytical Modeling for Extreme-Scale Computing Environments

Projects that will significantly enhance our ability to predict how scientific workflows perform and to explain workflow behavior on distributed extreme-scale infrastructures built from computers, storage, instruments and multi-gigabit networks. Funding: $200K per year for 3 yrs.
http://science.energy.gov/~/media/grants/pdf/foas/2014/SC_FOA_0001088.pdf