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: 1643271
• 负责人: Zhao Zhang
• 金额: $ 37.5万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-25 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1643271&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，新兴的 NVM（非易失性内存）技术适用于数据日益密集的应用。该项目将研究一种称为通用内存系统的新颖内存架构，该架构采用异构内存技术来提供强大的内存计算引擎，满足数据密集型应用程序对内存性能、能源效率和可靠性日益增长的需求。它基于从底层硬件设计到高层操作系统管理的整体方法，以解决异构NVM技术集成所带来的复杂性和效率的挑战。它使存储系统能够自适应，以满足不同的应用对性能、能效和可靠性的需求。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，旨在提高从移动到服务器平台的计算系统的性能、能源效率、可靠性和可管理性。预计该项目的成果将对学术界和工业界的现代计算机存储系统的设计产生更广泛的影响。