Flexible Architectural Cores for Commerical Computing Systems: A University-Industry GOALI Collaboration

商业计算工作负载，如在线交易处理、文件服务、数据挖掘和网络服务，目前占整个大型计算系统市场的85%左右。然而，到目前为止，计算机体系结构的大部分研究都集中在提高计算机系统访问、处理和存储大量数据的能力，这些数据通常是数值密集型工作负载。隐含的假设是，所有类型的计算机系统都将受益于为这些应用开发的体系结构创新。为了解决商业计算系统的经济重要性与专注于技术计算系统的传统体系结构开发之间的差距，该项目正在开发用于商业计算系统处理器体系结构的灵活体系结构核心。这种新的体系结构是基于这样的观察，即商业计算环境中不断变化的行为导致不同的体系结构创新在执行的不同阶段适用。该项目的一个独特方面将显著增强其与商业计算环境的相关性，这是IBM公司在明尼苏达州罗切斯特的商业微处理器开发小组的密切合作。该项目将通过研究生研究和与产业界的互动，为教育和人力资源开发做出实质性贡献。

Commercial computing workloads, such as on-line transactionprocessing, file-serving, data mining, and web-serving, currentlyrepresent about 85 percent of the overall market for large computingsystems. Nevertheless, much of the computer architecture researchto date has focused on improving the capability of computer systemsto access, process, and store the large arrays of data common tonumerically-intensive workloads. The implicit assumption has beenthat all types of computer systems would benefit from thearchitectural innovations developed for these applications. Toaddress this disparity between the economic importance of commercialcomputing systems and the traditional architecture development focuson technical computing systems, this project is developing theFlexible Architectural Cores for Commercial Computing Systemsprocessor architecture. This new architecture is based on theobservation that the constantly changing behavior in a commercialcomputing environment causes different architectural innovations tobe applicable during different phases of execution. A unique aspectof this project that will significantly enhance its relevance tocommercial computing environments is the close collaboration of theIBM Corporation's commercial microprocessor development group inRochester, Minnesota. This project will make substantialcontributions to educational and human resource development throughgraduate student research and interaction with industry.