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

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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.