Cyberinfrastructure for Computer Architecture Design and Evaluation

计算机体系结构设计和评估的网络基础设施

• 批准号: 1148646
• 负责人: Bruce Childers
• 金额: $ 8.93万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1148646&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cyberinfrastructure; Computer; Architecture; Design; Evaluation

Innovation in computer hardware, ranging from the simplest consumer devices to the most powerful scientific computers, relies on availability of software and hardware design and evaluation tools. The development of the cyberinfrastructure is itself a significant undertaking due to the complexity of today's computers and applications. This complexity has lead to ad-hoc infrastructure that is difficult to quickly extend in new ways, minimally tested, and arduous to use for comparing innovations. This burden greatly impedes progress of computer hardware research and development. The community-driven creation and maintenance of robust cyberinfrastructure can overcome this challenge by leveraging and combining effort and investment made by multiple groups. This workshop sets a foundation to grow a community for developing more reusable, better tested and interoperable tools. The energy, performance, reliability and cost of information technology will be further improved at a faster pace as a result.The cyberinfrastructure for computer architecture (hardware) includes software simulation, hardware emulation, analytic models and benchmarks for CPU/cache, network-on-a-chip (NoC), memory and storage. These tools are used to analyze existing systems and their bottlenecks, develop new hardware capabilities, and study and evaluate design trade-offs. While the tools are deeply ingrained and fundamental to computer architecture, the architecture cyberinfrastructure suffers badly from fragmented, ad hoc and disparate efforts, arising from research expediency and development burden. To address the situation, this workshop brings together tool developers and users to assess the current state of the cyberinfrastructure and to establish strategies and build a community for more coordinated and joint development. The workshop develops 1) an assessment of the current state of the cyberinfrastructure; 2) roadmaps of needed tool capabilities and support for future technologies; 3) ways to leverage and combine disparate development effort by multiple groups; and 4) a methodology to establish and sustain a cohesive community that builds and supports a set of open-source, extensible, scalable, validated and interoperable tools. The workshop outcomes serve building a community framework for simulating computer architecture.

计算机硬件的创新，从最简单的消费设备到最强大的科学计算机，都依赖于软件和硬件设计及评估工具的可用性。 由于当今计算机和应用程序的复杂性，网络基础设施的开发本身就是一项重大任务。这种复杂性导致临时基础设施难以以新的方式快速扩展、测试最少，并且难以用于比较创新。 这种负担极大地阻碍了计算机硬件研发的进步。 由社区驱动的强大网络基础设施的创建和维护可以通过利用和结合多个团体的努力和投资来克服这一挑战。 本次研讨会为发展社区奠定了基础，以开发更多可重用、经过更好测试和可互操作的工具。 信息技术的能源、性能、可靠性和成本将进一步更快地提高。计算机体系结构（硬件）的网络基础设施包括软件模拟、硬件仿真、CPU/缓存、片上网络（NoC）、内存和存储的分析模型和基准。 这些工具用于分析现有系统及其瓶颈、开发新的硬件功能以及研究和评估设计权衡。 虽然这些工具对于计算机体系结构来说是根深蒂固的基础，但由于研究便利性和开发负担，体系结构网络基础设施却因分散、临时和分散的工作而受到严重影响。 为了解决这一问题，本次研讨会汇集了工具开发人员和用户，评估网络基础设施的现状，制定战略并建立社区，以实现更加协调和共同的发展。 研讨会制定了 1) 对网络基础设施现状的评估； 2）所需工具功能和对未来技术支持的路线图； 3）利用和结合多个团队不同的开发工作的方法； 4) 建立和维持有凝聚力的社区的方法，该社区构建和支持一组开源、可扩展、可扩展、经过验证和可互操作的工具。 研讨会的成果有助于构建模拟计算机体系结构的社区框架。