IUCRC Preliminary Proposal Planning Grant UC Merced: Center for Memory System Research (CEMSYS)

在应用程序和硬件技术进步的推动下，存储系统一直在快速发展。高内存应用和新硬件技术的趋势呼唤新的存储系统的诞生，这些系统具有更大的容量、更高的性能，甚至具有计算能力。顺应这一趋势，必须开展存储系统研究，将新的存储系统整合到现有的软硬件生态系统中。这样的研究对该行业至关重要，因为该行业正在寻找解决方案来开发新的业务，并使用越来越大的数据集和更快的数据生成速度部署他们的应用程序。CEMSYS旨在解决未得到满足的行业研究需求，包括(A)集成和评估新兴存储系统，以及(B)发展其应用，以最大限度地利用新兴存储系统。CEMSYS将在以下领域开展工作：(1)异质内存；(2)分散内存；(3)大内存系统；(4)内存中的处理；(5)内存的可靠性和安全性；(6)内存配置和优化；(7)新兴的高速缓存相干互连(如CXL)；以及(8)持久内存。几乎所有计算机程序的性能都依赖于存储和检索信息的内存。提高存储系统的容量、性能、可靠性和能效可以使许多应用受益。因此，CEMSYS的研究具有非常重要的经济意义，并将产生很高的社会影响。通过在加州大学默塞德分校(一家为少数族裔服务的机构)建立CEMSYS，我们为这些少数族裔学生带来了独特的研究和发展机会。CEMSYS将利用默塞德(以及整个中央山谷)的人口多样性来指导和培养一支多元化、高技能、具有全球竞争力的工程劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The memory system has been evolving at a fast pace, driven by applications and advance of hardware technology. The trend of memory-consuming applications and new hardware technology is calling for the birth of new memory systems with larger capacity, higher performance, and even with computing capabilities. Aligned with the trend, memory systems research must be carried out to integrate the new memory systems into the existing software and hardware ecosystems. Such research is critical to the industry, because the industry is looking for solutions to develop new business and deploy their applications with increasingly larger datasets and faster data-generation rate.   CEMSYS aims to address the unmet industry research needs on (a) integrating and evaluating emerging memory systems and (b) evolving its applications to make the best usage of emerging memory systems. CEMSYS will work on the following areas: (1) heterogeneous memory; (2) disaggregated memory; (3) big memory systems; (4) processing in memory; (5) memory reliability and security; (6) memory profiling and optimization; (7) emerging cache coherent interconnect (such as CXL); and (8) persistent memory.  Memory is the foundation of computer systems. The performance of almost all computer programs relies on memory for information storage and retrieval. Increasing capacity, performance, reliability, and energy efficiency of memory systems can benefit a number of applications. Hence, CEMSYS research is highly economically important, and will generate a high societal impact. By establishing CEMSYS at UC Merced (a minority-serving institute), we bring unique research and development opportunities to those minority students. CEMSYS will leverage demographic diversity in Merced (and the Central Valley in general) to mentor and develop a diverse, highly skilled, globally competitive engineering workforce. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.