Collaborative Research:EAGER:Exploiting Heterogeneity in Emerging Interconnect Technologies for Building Highly Scalable and Power-Efficient Network-on-Chips for Many-core Systems

目标：本项目的目标是为全面重新思考片上网络（Network-on-Chips，NoCs）设计奠定基础，并提出利用新兴互连技术（如光子学和无线）的独特优势，为未来的多核设计性能可扩展和节能的NoCs。智力优势：随着更多的计算核心可以集成在单个芯片上，智能手机、笔记本电脑、服务器和数据中心等数字设备和系统的功耗正在以惊人的速度增长。只有当在内核和缓存之间传输数据的底层网络能够以低功耗提供可扩展的带宽时，多核架构的计算能力才能得到释放。研究表明，光子学和无线技术等颠覆性技术解决方案有可能缓解未来多核架构的关键带宽、功耗和延迟挑战。本研究结合多种互连技术，以达到三个目标，即：（1）可扩展到1000个核心，（2）功率效率（与最先进的金属互连相比，至少减少了50%），以及（3）在各种应用中具有高带宽和低延迟。所提出的研究有可能改变下一代NoC和多核架构的设计，这对于计算性能的持续增长至关重要。该提案描述了一种变革性和可行的方法，该方法集成了技术，架构，算法和应用程序的研究，用于设计节能的NoC，从而实现可扩展的多核架构。该研究还将通过将发现与教学和培训相结合，在教育中发挥重要作用。最后，拟议研究的结果和发现将通过技术出版物和演示文稿传播给研究人员、工程师和教育工作者。

Objective:The objective of this project is to lay the groundwork for completely re-thinking Network-on-Chips (NoCs) design and propose to exploit the unique advantages of the emerging interconnect technologies such as photonics and wireless for designing performance scalable, and power-efficient NoCs for future multicores.Intellectual Merits:Power consumed by digital devices and systems such as smartphones, laptops, servers and datacenters is increasing at an alarming rate as more computing cores can be integrated on a single chip. The computing capabilities of multicore architectures can be unleashed only if the underlying network that transports data between the cores and the caches can provide scalable bandwidth at low power consumption. Research has shown that disruptive technology solutions such as photonics and wireless technologies have the potential to alleviate the critical bandwidth, power, and latency challenges of future multicore architectures. The proposed research combines multiple interconnect technologies to achieve three objectives, namely: (1) scalability to 1000 cores, (2) power efficiency (at least a 50% reduction as compared to state-of-the art metallic interconnects), and (3) high bandwidth and low latency across a wide variety of applications.Broader Impacts:The proposed research has the potential to transform the design of next-generation NoCs and multicore architectures, which are essential for the continued growth of computing performance. This proposal describes a transformative and viable approach that integrates research in technology, architecture, algorithm and applications for designing energy-efficient NoCs thus enabling scalable multicore architectures. The research will also play a major role in education by integrating discovery with teaching and training. Finally, the results and findings of the proposed research will be disseminated to researchers, engineers and educators through technical publications and presentations.