II-EN: Infrastructure for Computer Architecture Research

II-EN：计算机体系结构研究基础设施

• 批准号: 1405862
• 负责人: Resit Sendag
• 金额: $ 6.38万
• 依托单位: University of Rhode Island
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1405862&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: II; EN; Infrastructure; Computer; Architecture

The research enabled by the proposed infrastructure enhancement is directly related to the major challenges that face the microprocessor industry. Dissemination of the resulting tools and results will accelerate the progress of hardware and software multi-core research. It will also increase the understanding of dynamic data reference and branch behavior in computer programs, which as a result, will provide insights into the design of future hardware prediction mechanisms. The infrastructure enhancement will have an impact not only on research productivity but also on education activities. The additional resources will permit the introduction of more simulation projects and hands-on multiprocessor design in upper levels of the curriculum, and at the same time broaden the participation of undergraduate students in research activities. The acquisition of high-performance FPGA development boards and small-scale servers will be used by the researchers at the Microarchitecture Research Insights Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island to support ongoing computer architecture research projects on FPGA-accelerated simulation and pattern-centric hardware prediction mechanisms. Results and tools from the research enabled by this acquisition will enable exploration of architectural innovations in future multi-core systems by providing much needed modeling and simulation solutions on FPGAs that overcome software simulation performance bottleneck. The effort will greatly enhance the ability of faculty and students to do computationally intensive research projects and will provide high throughput for tasks arising from computer architecture research done by simulation.

拟议的基础设施增强所促成的研究与微处理器行业面临的主要挑战直接相关。由此产生的工具和成果的传播将加速硬件和软件多核研究的进展。 它还将增加对计算机程序中的动态数据引用和分支行为的理解，从而为未来硬件预测机制的设计提供见解。基础设施的改善不仅会对研究生产力产生影响，而且会对教育活动产生影响。额外的资源将允许引入更多的模拟项目和动手多处理器设计在较高水平的课程，并在同一时间扩大本科生在研究活动的参与。收购的高性能FPGA开发板和小规模服务器将被罗得岛大学微架构研究洞察实验室的研究人员用于支持正在进行的计算机架构研究项目，这些项目涉及FPGA加速仿真和以模式为中心的硬件预测机制。此次收购所带来的研究成果和工具将通过在FPGA上提供急需的建模和仿真解决方案来克服软件仿真性能瓶颈，从而实现对未来多核系统架构创新的探索。这一努力将大大提高教师和学生的能力，做计算密集型的研究项目，并将提供高吞吐量的任务所产生的计算机体系结构的模拟研究。