I/UCRC Proposal For University Site At Virginia Tech: Center For High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC)

该奖项建立了弗吉尼亚理工学院作为高性能可重构计算的工业/大学合作研究中心(IUCRC)的研究地点。这个合作研究中心的其他站点包括佛罗里达大学(2007)、乔治华盛顿大学(2007)和杨百翰大学(2008)。可重构计算技术可以分为两个使用领域：高性能计算(HPC)和高性能嵌入式计算(HPEC)。RC技术用于高性能计算领域，用于加速要求苛刻的计算，否则这些计算将在大规模计算系统上通过软件执行。HPEC使用RC技术，在信号和图像处理、实时视觉、密码学和网络处理等领域创建高性能嵌入式计算解决方案。该中心的使命是调查、开发和评估可重新配置的HPC和HPEC中的新概念、方法、基础设施和工具，从积木设备到基础设施再到应用，并通过研究和教育促进这些技术，以造福于中心成员、学生和整个学科。杨百翰大学的研究将涉及：1)航空航天和国防应用的新型核心架构和相关组件；2)HPC代码到高性能可重构计算系统的应用映射；3)可重构计算应用的性能分析、分析和性能优化；4)中间件、接口和其他高性能可重构计算机的基础设施。高性能可重构计算中心应该会大大加强美国在其信息技术领域保持强大领导地位的努力。它还可能有助于将行业和用户聚集在一起，定义共同的标准。行业成员、研究人员和学生将从研究中心整个生命周期的互动中受益。RC的进步几乎影响到所有需要高性能计算的科学和工程学科，无论是面向大型机的还是嵌入式的。RC技术有望制造出结合了软件可编程计算的灵活性和定制硬件的计算能力的计算系统。

This award establishes Virginia Polytechnic Institute as a research site of the Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (IUCRC) for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing. Other sites of this collaborative research center include the University of Florida (2007), George Washington University (2007), and Brigham Young University (2008). Reconfigurable computing (RC) technology can be divided into two areas of use: High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC). RC technology is used in the field of HPC to accelerate demanding computations that would otherwise be performed in software on a large-scale computing system. RC technology is used in HPEC to create high-performance embedded computing solutions in areas such as signal and image processing, real-time vision, cryptography, and network processing. The mission of this center is to investigate, develop, and evaluate new concepts, methods, infrastructure, and tools in reconfigurable HPC and HPEC, from building-block devices to infrastructure to applications, and advance these technologies through research and education for the benefit of center members, students, and the discipline at large. The research BYU will address; 1) Novel Core Architectures and Related Components for Aerospace & Defense Applications, 2) Application Mapping of HPC Codes to High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing Systems, 3) Profiling, Analysis, & Performance Optimization for Reconfigurable Computing Applications, 4) Middleware, Interfaces, & other Infrastructure for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computers. The Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing should significantly enhance the U.S. effort to maintain a strong leadership position within their area of information technology. It may also serve to bring industry and users together to define common standards. Industry members, researchers and students will gain from the interactions throughout the life of the research center. Advances in RC affect virtually all disciplines of science and engineering which require high-performance computing, be it mainframe-oriented or embedded. RC technology promises to produce computing systems combining the flexibility of software-programmable computations with the computational power of custom hardware.