II-NEW: INSpiRE: Infrastructure for heterogeNeous System ResEarch

II-新：INSpiRE：异构系统研究基础设施

• 批准号: 1205618
• 负责人: Chitaranjan Das
• 金额: $ 55万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1205618&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: II; NEW; INSpiRE; Infrastructure; heterogeNeous

This institutional infrastructure (II) project, called INSpiRE, is aimed at building a new shared research facility for conducting multidisciplinary research in several areas of computer science and engineering. The proposed infrastructure is a heterogeneous cluster computing system with a heterogeneous memory and storage hierarchy. This equipment will facilitate implementation, evaluation and validation of research projects that focus on several layers of the system design stack, with the common theme of leveraging heterogeneity in each of these layers for designing heterogeneous multicore architectures. It would enable cross-pollination of ideas and tighter integration across these projects for initiating new cross-cutting research. In addition, existing projects in three application domains (neuromorphic vision processing, high performance soft computing, and statistical analysis of privacy-preserving datasets) will directly benefit from this infrastructure.The proposed infrastructure would support the research activities of more than 50 Ph.D. students in three major disciplines: hardware architecture, system software, and applications. The infrastructure will be a catalyst to advance the state-of-the-art in designing future multicore systems. Undergraduate, graduate, minority and women students involved in the project will get hands-on training in several cross-cutting areas. The tools techniques developed in this research will be used in teaching existing and new courses, and will be made publicly available.

这个机构基础设施（II）项目，称为INSpiRE，旨在建立一个新的共享研究设施，在计算机科学和工程的几个领域进行多学科研究。建议的基础设施是一个异构的集群计算系统与异构的内存和存储层次结构。该设备将有助于实施、评估和验证侧重于系统设计堆栈的几个层的研究项目，其共同主题是利用这些层中的每一层的异构性来设计异构多核架构。它将使各种想法能够相互交流，使这些项目更加紧密地结合起来，以启动新的跨领域研究。此外，三个应用领域（神经形态视觉处理、高性能软计算和隐私保护数据集的统计分析）的现有项目将直接受益于该基础设施。学生在三个主要学科：硬件架构，系统软件和应用。该基础设施将成为推动未来多核系统设计的催化剂。 参与该项目的本科生、研究生、少数民族学生和女学生将在几个交叉领域得到实践培训。在这项研究中开发的工具技术将用于教学现有的和新的课程，并将公开提供。