BRIGE: POWER DELIVERY TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOR FUTURE MANY-CORE COMPUTING PLATFORMS

BRIGE：面向未来多核计算平台的功率传输逻辑研究和教育开发摘要：这项工作的目标是为面向未来高性能计算平台的多核和众核功率传输技术建立创新的研究和教育活动，这些平台适合于维持多维和跨学科的最新研究。多核和众核芯片和处理器设计有望在我们日常生活中的关键应用中使用的计算平台性能方面取得重大突破。这种计算技术和设计需要重新思考电力输送技术，定义新的研究方向和活动，以提高能源效率，提高性能，并降低尺寸和成本。例如，这些应用包括医疗应用、复杂天气模拟、虚拟现实和高级图形、视频会议、制造过程控制、工程复杂分析、教育和娱乐。这些应用影响着人们的日常生活、科学进步、经济增长、健康、安全和保障。智力优势：最近的芯片和处理器设计已经开始使用少数核心，目前使用传统的电力输送技术供电，这可能是足够的，即使不是最佳的，直到这一领域的研究进展。未来的芯片和处理器设计预计将包括数十个和数百个内核，这些内核可以是同构的和/或异构的，具有多个非均匀的工作负载。这将导致电力输送系统受到高度变化和不可预测的电力需求的影响，从而影响能量效率和动态性能。 本研究通过开发一个集成仿真平台来解决这些挑战，该平台包括效率模型、动态响应模型以及同构和异构众核负载分布模型，这些模型将用于研究和重新思考众核平台的功率传输设计。基于从开发的仿真平台获得的初步结果，还将开发一个可重新配置的研究平台，其中包括不同的功率转换器拓扑结构，以及支持多个异构和同构众核工作负载的可编程控制和电源管理实施。研究活动和相关的教育活动旨在吸引来自工程各个部门的工程师的参与。在这方面，本组织的工作人员将为社区中的所有人，包括妇女和非洲裔美国人等代表性不足的少数群体，提供电力输送和能源系统管理领域的服务，特别是应用于对广泛应用和市场产生影响的最先进和未来的计算平台。研究和教育活动包括在选定的历史上黑人学院和大学机构的研究报告和研讨会，亚拉巴马大学的学生介绍工程计划，以及一个多核心电力输送开放日的组织，涉及行业，学生和代表性不足的群体的人。还将通过参考出版物以及将开发和传播的多核动力输送设计新课程传播成果。

BRIGE: POWER DELIVERY TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOR FUTURE MANY-CORE COMPUTING PLATFORMSABSTRACT:The objective of this effort is to establish innovative research and educational activities for multi-core and many-core power delivery technologies for future high performance computing platforms that are suitable for sustaining multidimensional and interdisciplinary state-of-the-art research. Multi-core and many-core chip and processor designs promise significant breakthroughs in computing platform performance that are used in critical applications in our daily lives. Such computing technologies and designs require the rethinking of power delivery technologies by defining new research directions and activities to improve energy efficiency, improve performance, and reduce size and cost. These applications, for example, include medical applications, complex weather simulations, virtual reality and advanced graphics, video conferencing, manufacturing processes controls, engineering complex analysis, education and entertainment. Such applications impact peoples' daily life, scientific advancement, economical growth, health, safety and security.Intellectual Merits: Recent chip and processor designs have started to utilize few cores and currently are powered using conventional power delivery technologies, which may be sufficient for now even though not optimum, until the research in this area advances. Future chip and processor designs are expected to include tens and hundreds of cores that can be homogeneous and/or heterogeneous with multiple non-uniform workloads. This will result in the power delivery system being subjected to highly varying and unpredictable power demands thus impacting energy efficiency and dynamic performance. This research addresses these challenges by developing an integrated simulation platform including efficiency model(s), dynamic response model(s) and homogeneous and heterogeneous many-core loading profiles model(s) that will be used to investigate and rethink power delivery design for many-core platforms. Based on the preliminary results obtained from the developed simulation platform, a reconfigurable research platform will also be developed that includes different power converter topologies, and programmable control and power management implementations supporting multiple heterogeneous and homogeneous many-core workloads.Broader Impacts: The research activities and related educational activities are designed to attract the participation of engineers from all segments of the engineering community, including those from underrepresented and minority groups such as women and African Americans, to the area of power delivery and energy systems management especially as applied to the state-of-the-art and future computing platforms that has an impact on wide range of applications and markets. Research and educational activities include research presentations and seminars at selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities institutions, the University of Alabama Student Introduction to Engineering program, and the organization of a Many-Core Power Delivery Open House Day involving industry, students, and persons from underrepresented groups. The results will also be disseminated through refereed publications and through a new course for many-core power delivery designs that will be developed and disseminated.