IUCRC Preliminary Proposal Planning Grant UC Merced: Center for Memory System Research (CEMSYS)

在应用和硬件技术进步的推动下，存储系统一直在快速发展。内存消耗应用程序和新硬件技术的趋势正在呼唤更大容量、更高性能甚至具有计算能力的新内存系统的诞生。为了顺应这一趋势，必须开展存储系统研究，将新的存储系统集成到现有的软件和硬件生态系统中。这样的研究对行业至关重要，因为行业正在寻找解决方案来开发新业务，并在越来越大的数据集和更快的数据生成速率下部署他们的应用程序。CEMSYS旨在解决未满足的行业研究需求(a)集成和评估新兴存储系统和(b)发展其应用，以充分利用新兴存储系统。CEMSYS将致力于以下领域：(1)异构内存；(2)分解记忆；(3)大存储系统；(4)内存处理；(5)存储器的可靠性和安全性；(6)内存分析与优化；(7)新兴缓存相干互连（如CXL）；(8)持久记忆。存储器是计算机系统的基础。几乎所有计算机程序的性能都依赖于存储器来存储和检索信息。提高内存系统的容量、性能、可靠性和能源效率可以使许多应用程序受益。因此，CEMSYS的研究具有很高的经济重要性，并将产生很高的社会影响。通过在加州大学默塞德分校（少数民族服务学院）建立CEMSYS，我们为这些少数民族学生带来了独特的研究和发展机会。CEMSYS将利用默塞德（以及整个中央山谷）的人口多样性，指导和培养一支多样化、高技能、具有全球竞争力的工程人才队伍。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The memory system has been evolving at a fast pace, driven by applications and advance of hardware technology. The trend of memory-consuming applications and new hardware technology is calling for the birth of new memory systems with larger capacity, higher performance, and even with computing capabilities. Aligned with the trend, memory systems research must be carried out to integrate the new memory systems into the existing software and hardware ecosystems. Such research is critical to the industry, because the industry is looking for solutions to develop new business and deploy their applications with increasingly larger datasets and faster data-generation rate.   CEMSYS aims to address the unmet industry research needs on (a) integrating and evaluating emerging memory systems and (b) evolving its applications to make the best usage of emerging memory systems. CEMSYS will work on the following areas: (1) heterogeneous memory; (2) disaggregated memory; (3) big memory systems; (4) processing in memory; (5) memory reliability and security; (6) memory profiling and optimization; (7) emerging cache coherent interconnect (such as CXL); and (8) persistent memory.  Memory is the foundation of computer systems. The performance of almost all computer programs relies on memory for information storage and retrieval. Increasing capacity, performance, reliability, and energy efficiency of memory systems can benefit a number of applications. Hence, CEMSYS research is highly economically important, and will generate a high societal impact. By establishing CEMSYS at UC Merced (a minority-serving institute), we bring unique research and development opportunities to those minority students. CEMSYS will leverage demographic diversity in Merced (and the Central Valley in general) to mentor and develop a diverse, highly skilled, globally competitive engineering workforce. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.