IUCRC Preliminary Proposal Planning Grant UC Merced: Center for Memory System Research (CEMSYS)

IUCRC 初步提案规划拨款 加州大学默塞德分校：内存系统研究中心 (CEMSYS)

• 批准号: 2310919
• 负责人: Dong Li
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of California - Merced
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2310919&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Preliminary; Proposal; Planning; Grant

The memory system has been evolving at a fast pace, driven by applications and advance of hardware technology. The trend of memory-consuming applications and new hardware technology is calling for the birth of new memory systems with larger capacity, higher performance, and even with computing capabilities. Aligned with the trend, memory systems research must be carried out to integrate the new memory systems into the existing software and hardware ecosystems. Such research is critical to the industry, because the industry is looking for solutions to develop new business and deploy their applications with increasingly larger datasets and faster data-generation rate.   CEMSYS aims to address the unmet industry research needs on (a) integrating and evaluating emerging memory systems and (b) evolving its applications to make the best usage of emerging memory systems. CEMSYS will work on the following areas: (1) heterogeneous memory; (2) disaggregated memory; (3) big memory systems; (4) processing in memory; (5) memory reliability and security; (6) memory profiling and optimization; (7) emerging cache coherent interconnect (such as CXL); and (8) persistent memory.  Memory is the foundation of computer systems. The performance of almost all computer programs relies on memory for information storage and retrieval. Increasing capacity, performance, reliability, and energy efficiency of memory systems can benefit a number of applications. Hence, CEMSYS research is highly economically important, and will generate a high societal impact. By establishing CEMSYS at UC Merced (a minority-serving institute), we bring unique research and development opportunities to those minority students. CEMSYS will leverage demographic diversity in Merced (and the Central Valley in general) to mentor and develop a diverse, highly skilled, globally competitive engineering workforce. 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.

在应用程序和硬件技术的推动下，内存系统一直在快速发展。内存耗尽应用程序和新硬件技术的趋势在于，具有更大容量，更高性能甚至计算功能的新存储系统的诞生。与趋势保持一致，必须进行内存系统研究，以将新的存储系统集成到现有的软件和硬件生态系统中。此类研究对行业至关重要，因为该行业正在寻找解决新业务的解决方案，并使用越来越大的数据集和更快的数据生成率来部署其应用程序。 CEMSYS旨在满足（a）整合和评估新兴记忆系统的未满足行业研究需求，以及（b）不断发展其应用程序以最佳使用新兴记忆系统。 CEMSYS将在以下领域工作：（1）异质记忆； （2）分开内存； （3）大型内存系统； （4）记忆中的处理； （5）内存可靠性和安全性； （6）内存分析和优化； （7）新兴的缓存相干互连（例如CXL）； （8）持续记忆。内存是计算机系统的基础。几乎所有计算机程序的性能都依赖于内存来存储和检索。内存系统的容量，性能，可靠性和能源效率的提高可以使许多应用程序受益。因此，CEMSYS研究在经济上非常重要，并且会产生高度的社会影响。通过在UC Merced（一家少数派服务学院）建立CEMSYS，我们为这些少数族裔学生带来了独特的研发机会。 CEMSYS将利用默塞德（以及一般中央山谷）的人口多样性来发展多样性，高技能，全球竞争激烈的工程劳动力。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审查标准来评估值得获得支持。