Northeastern University Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems

标题：东北大学规划拨款：I/UCRC能源智能电子系统数据中心每天都在美国各地以不断增长的速度建设。仅在2015年上半年，就建设了94.8兆瓦的数据中心环境。金融服务、技术、社交媒体和医疗保健行业只是这个快速扩张市场的一小部分驱动力。考虑到云计算提供商和百亿亿次超级计算的雄心勃勃的目标，为了达到这些激进的计算目标，功率智能技术将发挥关键作用。这个项目解决了数据中心的电力使用问题。这笔计划拨款将在东北大学创建一个新的I/UCRC站点，加入现有的I/UCRC能源智能电子系统中心（ES2）。东北大学团队为现有中心带来了关键的研究专业知识，并利用了马萨诸塞州绿色高性能计算机中心（MGHPCC）的可用性。ES2 I/UCRC致力于通过研究合作社模式和新的本科生研究经验计划，让女性和少数族裔学生参与与该网站相关的研究活动。数据中心和超级计算设施在有效利用电力和冷却资源方面存在困难。东北大学的ES2中心为现有的ES2中心增加了新的研究能力，涵盖了从低功耗混合信号设计到将新兴内存技术引入内存层次结构，从利用加速器到功耗感知工作负载调度，这些都可以用来解决当前和未来的挑战。新的ES2站点加入了宾厄姆顿大学的领导机构，以及维拉诺瓦大学、佐治亚理工学院和德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校的中心合作伙伴。现有的中心合作伙伴已经在中心建立了25个产业合作伙伴。东北大学的加入建立在这一成功的基础上，并使该中心在第二阶段计划中扩展到许多领域。这些领域包括：i.)存储系统设计和优化，ii.)硬件和软件加速器，以及iii.)节能设计。

Title: Northeastern University Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Energy-Smart Electronic SystemsDatacenters are being constructed daily across the United States at an ever-increasing rate. Just in the first half of 2015, 94.8 megawatts of data center environments were constructed. Financial services, technology, social media and healthcare sectors are just a few of the drivers in this rapidly expanding market. Given the ambitious goals of cloud computing providers and exascale supercomputing, power-smart technologies are going to play a key role in order to reach these aggressive computing targets. This project addresses datacenter power usage. This planning grant will create a new I/UCRC Site at Northeastern University, joining the existing I/UCRC Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems (ES2). The Northeastern team brings critical research expertise to the existing Center, and leverages the availability of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computer Center (MGHPCC). The ES2 I/UCRC is committed to engaging women and underrepresented minorities students in research activities associated with the Site through a research coop model, and through a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.Datacenters and supercomputing facilities struggle in terms of their effective use of power and cooling resources. The addition of the Northeastern University Site to the existing ES2 Center adds new research capabilities across the computing stack, ranging from low-power mixed signal design to introducing emerging memory technologies into the memory hierarchy, and from leveraging accelerators to power-aware workload scheduling, that can be used to resolve current and future challenges. The new ES2 Site joins the lead institution Binghamton University, as well as Center partners at Villanova University, Georgia Tech and University of Texas at Arlington. The existing Center partners already have established 25 industrial partners in the Center. The addition of Northeastern builds on this success, and positions the Center to expand in a number of areas in a Phase II program. These areas include: i.) memory system design and optimization, ii.) accelerators, both hardware and software, and iii.) power-effective design.