信息领域的硬件技术和环境正在经历巨大的变化，特别是高性能处理器和硬件加速器、新型非易失存储器、高速互联设备以及由它们催生的具有丰富硬件上下文的异构计算架构、以高速持久化为显著特征的混合存储环境和支持远程数据直接存取的高速互联网络正在显著改变传统的数据管理与分析系统的底层支撑载体。本项目重点关注新型硬件环境给数据管理与分析领域带来的机遇与挑战，探索以下四个方面的关键技术：1）研究新型硬件环境下的数据管理架构和设计策略，实现对异构、多样、混合硬件环境的有效抽象和轻量化处理；2）研究支持混合异构硬件环境的存储与索引技术，加速上层数据处理；3）研究硬件感知的分析处理与性能优化，充分利用异构计算架构以及非易失存储环境的并行、定制以及新I/O特征；4）研究新型硬件使能的事务处理技术，实现恢复与并发控制以及高可扩展分布式事务处理。本项目的研究符合应用需求和硬件技术发展趋势，具有广阔的应用前景和学术价值。

Hardware technique and environment underwent significant transformations in the field of information domain, represented by high-performance processors and hardware accelerators characterized by abundant heterogeneous parallelism, non-volatile memory with hybrid storage hierarchies, and RDMA-enabled high-speed network. Recent hardware trends in these areas deeply affect data management and analysis applications. In this project, we focuses on both the challenges and opportunities that will potentially lead by new hardware environment. This project mainly focuses on four key aspects, including i)hardware-conscious data management architecture and design pattern to abstract the heterogeneous, diversified, hybrid hardware environments and support lightweight optimizations; ii) NVM-oriented data storage and indexing technologies to accelerate data processing; iii) hardware-aware analytical processing and performance optimization to exploit the abundant parallelism and access advantages offered by modern hardware; iv)RDMA-enabled scalable transaction processing including concurrency control and recovery techniques. The planned research conforms to the current applications and the development of the related technologies. It is of broad interests to the participants from academic and industries.