SHF: Medium:Collaborative Research: Architectural and System Support for Building Versatile Memory Systems

SHF：媒介：协作研究：构建多功能内存系统的架构和系统支持

• 批准号: 1514229
• 负责人: Zhao Zhang
• 金额: $ 37.5万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1514229&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHF; Medium; Collaborative; Research; Architectural

Computer memory design is moving into a new era with emerging NVM (non-volatile memory) technologies for increasingly data-intensive applications. This project will investigate a novel memory architecture called versatile memory system that hosts heterogeneous memory technologies to provide a powerful in-memory computing engine, addressing the increasing demands for memory performance, energy efficiency, and reliability from data-intensive applications. It is based on a holistic approach, from low-layer hardware design to high-layer OS management, to address the challenges of complexity and efficiency arising from the integration of heterogeneous NVM technologies. It allows the memory system to be self-adaptive to meet varying application demands on performance, energy efficiency, and reliability. The project will study the framework, critical hardware support, and feasible and meaningful functionalities of the versatile memory system, aiming at improving the performance, energy efficiency, reliability, and manageability of computing systems from mobile to server platforms. It is expected that the outcome of the project will have broader impact on the design of modern computer memory systems both in academia and industry.

计算机内存设计正在进入一个新时代，使用新兴的NVM（非易失性存储）技术，用于越来越多的数据密集型应用程序。该项目将研究一种称为多功能内存系统的新型内存体系结构，该系统托管异构内存技术，以提供功能强大的内存计算引擎，以满足对内存性能，能源效率以及数据密集型应用程序可靠性的不断增长的需求。它基于一种整体方法，从低层硬件设计到高层操作系统管理，以应对异质NVM Technologies的整合而引起的复杂性和效率的挑战。它允许记忆系统具有自适应，以满足对性能，能源效率和可靠性的不同应用要求。该项目将研究多功能存储系统的框架，关键硬件支持以及可行且有意义的功能，旨在提高计算系统从移动设备到服务器平台的性能，能效，可靠性和可管理性。预计该项目的结果将对学术界和行业的现代计算机记忆系统的设计产生更大的影响。