BRIGE: POWER DELIVERY TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOR FUTURE MANY-CORE COMPUTING PLATFORMS

Brige：面向未来多核计算平台的电力输送技术研究和教育发展：这项努力的目标是为未来高性能计算平台建立多核和多核电力输送技术的创新研究和教育活动，这些平台适合持续进行多维和跨学科的最先进研究。多核和多核芯片和处理器设计承诺在计算平台性能方面取得重大突破，这些平台用于我们日常生活中的关键应用。这样的计算技术和设计要求通过定义新的研究方向和活动来重新思考电力输送技术，以提高能源效率、改善性能、减少体积和成本。例如，这些应用包括医疗应用、复杂天气模拟、虚拟现实和高级图形、视频会议、制造过程控制、工程复杂分析、教育和娱乐。这些应用影响到人们的日常生活、科学进步、经济增长、健康、安全和保障。智能优势：最近的芯片和处理器设计已经开始使用较少的内核，目前使用传统的电力输送技术，在这一领域的研究取得进展之前，这种技术可能现在已经足够了，尽管不是最优的。未来的芯片和处理器设计预计将包括数十个和数百个内核，这些内核可以是同质的和/或具有多个非均匀工作负载的异质内核。这将导致电力输送系统受到高度变化和不可预测的电力需求，从而影响能源效率和动态性能。为了应对这些挑战，本研究开发了一个集成仿真平台，包括效率模型(S)、动态响应模型(S)和同质和异质多核负载剖面模型(S)，用于调查和重新思考多核平台的功率输送设计。基于从开发的仿真平台获得的初步结果，还将开发一个可重新配置的研究平台，其中包括不同的电源转换器拓扑，以及支持多种异质和同质多核工作负载的可编程控制和电源管理实施。广泛影响：研究活动和相关教育活动旨在吸引来自工程界所有阶层的工程师参与，包括那些来自代表不足的工程师和少数群体，如妇女和非裔美国人，到电力输送和能源系统管理领域，特别是应用于对广泛应用和市场产生影响的最先进和未来计算平台。研究和教育活动包括在选定的历史黑人学院和大学机构进行研究报告和研讨会，阿拉巴马大学学生工程学入门计划，以及组织多核心送电开放日，吸引行业、学生和代表不足群体的人士参加。还将通过经评审的出版物以及将开发和传播的多核心电力输送设计的新课程来传播这些成果。

BRIGE: POWER DELIVERY TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOR FUTURE MANY-CORE COMPUTING PLATFORMSABSTRACT:The objective of this effort is to establish innovative research and educational activities for multi-core and many-core power delivery technologies for future high performance computing platforms that are suitable for sustaining multidimensional and interdisciplinary state-of-the-art research. Multi-core and many-core chip and processor designs promise significant breakthroughs in computing platform performance that are used in critical applications in our daily lives. Such computing technologies and designs require the rethinking of power delivery technologies by defining new research directions and activities to improve energy efficiency, improve performance, and reduce size and cost. These applications, for example, include medical applications, complex weather simulations, virtual reality and advanced graphics, video conferencing, manufacturing processes controls, engineering complex analysis, education and entertainment. Such applications impact peoples' daily life, scientific advancement, economical growth, health, safety and security.Intellectual Merits: Recent chip and processor designs have started to utilize few cores and currently are powered using conventional power delivery technologies, which may be sufficient for now even though not optimum, until the research in this area advances. Future chip and processor designs are expected to include tens and hundreds of cores that can be homogeneous and/or heterogeneous with multiple non-uniform workloads. This will result in the power delivery system being subjected to highly varying and unpredictable power demands thus impacting energy efficiency and dynamic performance. This research addresses these challenges by developing an integrated simulation platform including efficiency model(s), dynamic response model(s) and homogeneous and heterogeneous many-core loading profiles model(s) that will be used to investigate and rethink power delivery design for many-core platforms. Based on the preliminary results obtained from the developed simulation platform, a reconfigurable research platform will also be developed that includes different power converter topologies, and programmable control and power management implementations supporting multiple heterogeneous and homogeneous many-core workloads.Broader Impacts: The research activities and related educational activities are designed to attract the participation of engineers from all segments of the engineering community, including those from underrepresented and minority groups such as women and African Americans, to the area of power delivery and energy systems management especially as applied to the state-of-the-art and future computing platforms that has an impact on wide range of applications and markets. Research and educational activities include research presentations and seminars at selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities institutions, the University of Alabama Student Introduction to Engineering program, and the organization of a Many-Core Power Delivery Open House Day involving industry, students, and persons from underrepresented groups. The results will also be disseminated through refereed publications and through a new course for many-core power delivery designs that will be developed and disseminated.