II-NEW: INSpiRE: Infrastructure for heterogeNeous System ResEarch

这个名为INSPIRE的机构基础设施(II)项目旨在建立一个新的共享研究设施，用于在计算机科学和工程的几个领域进行多学科研究。该基础设施是一个具有异质内存和存储层次结构的异类集群计算系统。该设备将促进侧重于系统设计堆栈的几个层的研究项目的实施、评价和验证，其共同主题是利用这些层中的每一层的异质性来设计不同种类的多核体系结构。它将促进思想的交叉授粉，并在这些项目之间更紧密地结合，以启动新的交叉研究。此外，三个应用领域的现有项目(神经形态视觉处理、高性能软计算和隐私保护数据集的统计分析)将直接受益于该基础设施。该基础设施将支持50多名博士生在硬件架构、系统软件和应用三个主要学科的研究活动。该基础设施将成为推动未来多核系统设计的最先进技术的催化剂。参与该项目的本科生、研究生、少数民族和女学生将在几个交叉领域接受实践培训。本研究开发的工具技术将用于现有课程和新课程的教学，并将公开提供。

This institutional infrastructure (II) project, called INSpiRE, is aimed at building a new shared research facility for conducting multidisciplinary research in several areas of computer science and engineering. The proposed infrastructure is a heterogeneous cluster computing system with a heterogeneous memory and storage hierarchy. This equipment will facilitate implementation, evaluation and validation of research projects that focus on several layers of the system design stack, with the common theme of leveraging heterogeneity in each of these layers for designing heterogeneous multicore architectures. It would enable cross-pollination of ideas and tighter integration across these projects for initiating new cross-cutting research. In addition, existing projects in three application domains (neuromorphic vision processing, high performance soft computing, and statistical analysis of privacy-preserving datasets) will directly benefit from this infrastructure.The proposed infrastructure would support the research activities of more than 50 Ph.D. students in three major disciplines: hardware architecture, system software, and applications. The infrastructure will be a catalyst to advance the state-of-the-art in designing future multicore systems. Undergraduate, graduate, minority and women students involved in the project will get hands-on training in several cross-cutting areas. The tools techniques developed in this research will be used in teaching existing and new courses, and will be made publicly available.