BRIGE: OS-SPECIFIC MANY-CORE DESIGN

BRIGE：特定于操作系统的多核设计

• 批准号: 1301953
• 负责人: Chen Liu
• 金额: $ 16.9万
• 依托单位: Clarkson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1301953&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BRIGE; OS; SPECIFIC; MANY; CORE

Intellectual Merit: The objective of this BRIGE research project is to leverage current microprocessor design to support and meet the increasing demand on system performance/ throughput. The ever-increasing complexity of microprocessors makes it necessary to renovate the current technology. The project will explore the design space of many-core microprocessors, centered on reducing the operating system overhead and interference with user applications via hardware support. This project is expected to yield a more detailed understanding of the interactions between the hardware and system software that take part during the execution of applications. A transformative scheme is proposed to distribute the operating system services onto dedicated and specialized cores. The novelty of this research lies in an attempt to combine research fronts at different layers of the microarchitectural design into a unified framework, with specific focus on scalability, adaptivity, and improved fault handling. This project will advance the fundamental understanding of principles of designing such systems and introduce creative concepts and perspectives. These advantages will pave the way towards taking advantage of the computing power of future many-core systems.Broader Impacts: This BRIGE project aims to tightly integrate the research with different levels of education to attract traditionally underrepresented ethnic and gender groups into the engineering and computing pipeline and to pursue a successful higher education. An associated broadening participation plan will support a number of mentoring and outreach activities for disseminating knowledge of the advancements in modern microprocessor design into high school and university classrooms. It will include an outreach to K-12 students and teachers and local community college in a predominantly underprivileged and social-economically impacted neighborhood of Miami, Florida, leveraging upon the existing university programs to attract underrepresented students to the discipline of engineering. Several undergraduate researchers selected from a diversified student body will be actively involved with the proposed research activities. The integration of experimental effort along with theoretical analysis will offer invaluable experiences to graduate and undergraduate researchers involved in the project. The educational component also includes development of a specific course on many-core architecture and its interaction with operating systems, integrated with the research program. The advances expected from this project will enable the design of next generation high-performance microprocessors that will impact the computing ability and performance of future personal computers and the public at large.

智力优点：该BRIGE研究项目的目的是利用当前的微处理器设计来支持和满足对系统性能/吞吐量的日益增长的需求。微处理器不断增加的复杂性使得有必要翻新当前的技术。该项目将探索多核微处理器的设计空间，以减少操作系统开销并通过硬件支持对用户应用程序进行干扰。预计该项目将对执行应用程序期间的硬件和系统软件之间的交互作用有更详细的了解。提出了一种变革性计划，将操作系统服务分配到专用和专业的内核上。这项研究的新颖性在于试图将微体系设计不同层的研究方面结合到统一的框架中，并特别关注可扩展性，适应性和改善的断层处理。该项目将提高人们对设计系统原理并介绍创造性概念和观点的基本理解。这些优势将为利用未来多核系统的计算能力铺平道路。BRODER的影响：这个BRIGE项目旨在将研究与不同水平的教育紧密整合在一起，以吸引传统上代表性不足的种族和性别群体进入工程和计算渠道，并继续进行成功的高等教育。相关的扩大参与计划将支持许多指导和外展活动，以将现代微处理器设计进步的知识传播到高中和大学教室中。它将包括与K-12学生，老师和当地社区学院的宣传，主要是佛罗里达州迈阿密的贫困和社会经济影响社区，并利用现有的大学计划吸引了代表性不足的学生进入工程学科。从多元化的学生团体中选出的几位本科研究人员将积极参与拟议的研究活动。实验努力以及理论分析的整合将为参与该项目的研究生和本科研究人员提供宝贵的经验。该教育组成部分还包括开发有关多核体系结构的特定课程及其与研究计划集成的操作系统的互动。该项目预期的进步将使下一代高性能微处理器的设计将影响未来个人计算机和整个公众的计算能力和性能。