CNS Core: Small: Operating System Approaches for a Consolidated Rack Computer

CNS 核心：小型：整合机架计算机的操作系统方法

基本信息

批准号：
2114218
负责人：
Jakob Eriksson
金额：
$ 50万
依托单位：
University of Illinois at Chicago
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2114218&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CNS Core Small Operating System

CNS Core Small Operating System

项目摘要

The objective of this project is to lay the foundations for a new type of computer, termed a “rack computer”. Named for the racks commonly used to hold computers in today's data centers, a rack computer consists of several individual computers, co-located in a rack. Instead of large number of individually managed computers, however, a rack computer appears to the user as if it was a single computer with the combined resources of the individual machines. Toward this goal, the PI will investigate new programming models, communication mechanisms and operating system designs. Compared to existing techniques from the cloud-, cluster- and super-computing worlds, a rack computer allows the same program to more seamlessly scale from a basic laptop computer, to a full rack of powerful servers. Because one rack can hold a substantial amount of computing power, including as many as 10,000 CPU cores, and because rack computers offer substantial efficiency gains over current techniques, a single rack computer may be enough to host many services that today require complex engineering to bring to Internet scale. This promises to substantially reduce both development and deployment complexity, and thus costs, while at the same time improving energy efficiency.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.

该项目的目的是为一种新型计算机奠定基础，称为“机架计算机”。以在当今数据中心中固定计算机的架子命名，一个机架计算机由几台单独的计算机组成，该计算机在机架中共置。但是，用户似乎是一台具有单个计算机的组合资源的计算机，而不是大量的单独的托管计算机，而不是单个托管计算机。为了实现这一目标，PI将研究新的编程模型，通信机制和操作系统设计。与云，群集和超级计算世界的现有技术相比，机架计算机允许同一程序从基本的笔记本电脑计算机更加无缝扩展到完整的功能服务器。因为一个机架可以持有大量的计算能力，包括多达10,000个CPU核心，并且机架计算机比当前技术提供了可观的效率提高，因此一台机架计算机可能足以托管许多服务，这些服务今天需要复杂的工程才能使Internet缩小规模。这有望大大降低发展和部署的复杂性，从而成本，同时提高能源效率。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。