CI-P: Planning Simulation Infrastructure Evaluation for Parallel/Distributed Computer Systems

CI-P：并行/分布式计算机系统的规划仿真基础设施评估

• 批准号: 1557244
• 负责人: Nam Sung Kim
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-21 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1557244&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; Planning; Simulation; Infrastructure; Evaluation

The importance of running one or more applications on a computer system comprised of many connected computers such as data centers and supercomputers in a parallel/distributed manner has continued to increase because of the proliferation of valuable and essential applications including various Internet-based services provided by Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. The evaluation of performance and power efficiency of parallel/distributed computer systems running such applications prove to be critical when the high impact of these applications on our society, economy and environment is considered. This necessitates a flexible, detailed, and open-source full-system simulation infrastructure, which is lacking at present. The goal of this project is to lay the groundwork for developing such an evaluation infrastructure for increased computing performance, so as to assure the leading position of the US academia and industry in large-scale parallel/distributed computing.This planning grant will enable developing a system simulator augmented with rudimentary features and models to support simulation of a simple parallel/distributed computer system. It will be distributed to the computer architecture and operating system research communities with the expectation that such a simulator will lay the foundation for developing a more advanced full-system simulation infrastructure that can quickly but precisely simulate more representative parallel/distributed computer system in the future. A tutorial will be arranged to foster the use of the system simulator, and a workshop, which will involve students, researchers from academic institutions and leading industrial/national research labs, will be organized to identify various requirements and desirable features needed by a full blown system simulation infrastructure.

在许多连接的计算机组成的计算机系统上运行一个或多个应用程序的重要性，例如数据中心和超级计算机以并行/分布式的方式继续增加，因为有价值和基本的应用程序的扩散，包括Google，Facebook，Facebook，Amazon，Amazon，Amazon，Amazon等的各种基于Internet的服务等，在运行这些应用程序中，对我们的应用程序进行了较高的影响。这需要一个灵活，详细和开源的全系统模拟基础架构，目前缺乏。该项目的目的是为开发这种评估基础架构奠定基础，以提高计算性能，以确保美国学术界和行业在大规模并行/分布式计算中的领先地位。此计划赠款将使该系统模拟器能够增强具有简单功能和模型的系统模拟器，以支持简单的平行/分布式计算机系统的模拟模拟。它将分发给计算机架构和操作系统研究社区，希望这种模拟器将为开发更高级的全系统模拟基础架构奠定基础，该基础架构可以快速但可以精确模拟未来更具代表性的平行/分布式计算机系统。将安排一个教程来促进系统模拟器的使用，将组织一个涉及学生，学术机构的研究人员以及领先的工业/国家研究实验室的研讨会，以确定完整的系统模拟基础设施所需的各种要求和理想的功能。