CAREER: Transcending the Thermal Management Challenges of Tera-Scale Computing

升高的温度是集成电子器件的可靠性、性能、功耗和封装成本的主要问题。温度是一个主要的物理障碍，限制了未来技术的性能优势，承诺万亿级集成。为了应对未来众核处理器的热管理挑战，该研究计划设想了一类新的智能动态热管理系统，该系统探索可能的控制参数设置的广阔搜索空间，并决定最佳温度和性能目标。该研究计划还研究了新的冷却系统设计，使热管理系统能够直接瞄准微观尺度的热点。直接针对热点消除了对性能的热约束。拟议的研究计划将导致变革性的解决方案和工具，以解决计算系统的基本热管理挑战，并确保其可扩展性。拟议的计划将导致本科生和研究生的多元化劳动力的培训做好准备，以应对明天？的热管理挑战。该计划的教育部分包括：（1）本科生的研究经验;（2）创业教育与研究的综合方法;（3）通过开发基于最先进的红外摄像机的教育实验室进行实践培训;（4）通过开发高质量的教育材料和交互式技术网站进行继续教育。

Elevated temperature is a major problem for the reliability, performance, power consumption, and packaging costs of integrated electronic devices. Temperature is a main physical barrier limiting the performance benefits of future technologies that promise tera-scale integration. To meet the thermal management challenges of future many-core processors, this research program envisions a new class of intelligent dynamic thermal management systems that explore the vast search space of possible control parameter settings and decide the optimal temperature and performance targets. This research program also investigates new cooling system designs that enable the thermal management system to target directly hot spots at the micro scale. Directly targeting hot spots alleviates the thermal constraints on performance.The proposed research program will lead to transformative solutions and tools that address the fundamental thermal management challenges of computing systems and ensure their scalability. The proposed program will lead to the training of a diverse workforce of undergraduate and graduate students to be well prepared to deal with tomorrow?s thermal management challenges. The educational component of this program includes (1) research experiences for undergraduates; (2) integrated approach to entrepreneurship education with research; (3) hands-on training through the development of educational laboratories based on a state-of-the-art infrared camera; and (4) continuous education through the development of high-quality educational materials and an interactive technical Web site.