Cyberinfrastructure for Computer Architecture Design and Evaluation

计算机硬件的创新，从最简单的消费设备到最强大的科学计算机，有赖于软件和硬件设计和评估工具的可用性。由于当今计算机和应用程序的复杂性，发展网络基础设施本身就是一项重大的事业。这种复杂性导致了特别基础设施的出现，这些基础设施很难以新的方式快速扩展，经过最低限度的测试，并且难以用于比较创新。这一负担极大地阻碍了计算机硬件研发的进展。社区驱动的创建和维护强大的网络基础设施可以通过利用和结合多个团体所做的努力和投资来克服这一挑战。该研讨会为开发更多可重用、更好测试和可互操作的工具奠定了基础。计算机体系结构(硬件)的网络基础设施包括软件仿真、硬件仿真、CPU/缓存、片上网络(NoC)、内存和存储的分析模型和基准。这些工具用于分析现有系统及其瓶颈，开发新的硬件功能，以及研究和评估设计权衡。虽然这些工具是根深蒂固的，是计算机体系结构的基础，但由于研究便利和开发负担，体系结构网络基础设施严重受到支离破碎、临时和分散的努力的影响。为了应对这种情况，这次研讨会将工具开发人员和用户聚集在一起，评估网络基础设施的现状，并制定战略，建立社区，以实现更协调和共同的发展。研讨会制定了1)对网络基础设施现状的评估；2)所需工具能力的路线图和对未来技术的支持；3)如何利用和结合多个小组不同的开发工作；以及4)建立和维持一个有凝聚力的社区的方法，以建立和支持一套开放源码、可扩展、可扩展、经验证和可互操作的工具。研讨会的成果有助于构建用于模拟计算机体系结构的社区框架。

Innovation in computer hardware, ranging from the simplest consumer devices to the most powerful scientific computers, relies on availability of software and hardware design and evaluation tools. The development of the cyberinfrastructure is itself a significant undertaking due to the complexity of today's computers and applications. This complexity has lead to ad-hoc infrastructure that is difficult to quickly extend in new ways, minimally tested, and arduous to use for comparing innovations. This burden greatly impedes progress of computer hardware research and development. The community-driven creation and maintenance of robust cyberinfrastructure can overcome this challenge by leveraging and combining effort and investment made by multiple groups. This workshop sets a foundation to grow a community for developing more reusable, better tested and interoperable tools. The energy, performance, reliability and cost of information technology will be further improved at a faster pace as a result.The cyberinfrastructure for computer architecture (hardware) includes software simulation, hardware emulation, analytic models and benchmarks for CPU/cache, network-on-a-chip (NoC), memory and storage. These tools are used to analyze existing systems and their bottlenecks, develop new hardware capabilities, and study and evaluate design trade-offs. While the tools are deeply ingrained and fundamental to computer architecture, the architecture cyberinfrastructure suffers badly from fragmented, ad hoc and disparate efforts, arising from research expediency and development burden. To address the situation, this workshop brings together tool developers and users to assess the current state of the cyberinfrastructure and to establish strategies and build a community for more coordinated and joint development. The workshop develops 1) an assessment of the current state of the cyberinfrastructure; 2) roadmaps of needed tool capabilities and support for future technologies; 3) ways to leverage and combine disparate development effort by multiple groups; and 4) a methodology to establish and sustain a cohesive community that builds and supports a set of open-source, extensible, scalable, validated and interoperable tools. The workshop outcomes serve building a community framework for simulating computer architecture.