C3D: Communication Centric Computer Design

C3D：以通信为中心的计算机设计

• 批准号: EP/F018649/1
• 负责人: Simon Moore
• 金额: $ 90.26万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FF018649%2F1
• 关键词: C3D; Communication; Centric; Computer; Design

We are at a pivotal point in the design of computational devices.Technology scaling favours transistors over wires which has moved usinto an era where communication takes more time and consumes morepower than the computation itself. We believe that this technologydriver inextricably pushes us toward a communication-centric approachto computer system design from both hardware and softwareperspectives. This grant application is focused on exploring this newcommunication-centric view of computer system design from engineeringwires through computer architecture, compiler design, language designand application mapping. It is our wish that this grant form aportfolio of projects tackling future computational systems involvingthousands of power efficient processors.Communication-centric design can be viewed at several levels ofabstraction:Level 0 - implementation technology, where we will focus oncommunication networks-on-chip.Level 1 - computer architecture, focusing on optimisation ofcommunication flows in the system.Level 2 - algorithm mapping to allow automated placement of data andcode across a manycore computing surface.Level 3 - programming language and compiler design to allowparallelism and locality to be easily expressed.An FPGA based simulation infrastructure will also be constructed toallow research results to be obtained from hardware work at levels 0and 1, and to efficiently support software research undertaken atlevels 2 and 3.

我们正处于计算设备设计的关键时刻。技术规模化有利于晶体管而不是电线，这使我们进入了一个通信比计算本身花费更多时间和消耗更多功率的时代。我们相信，这种技术驱动力不可避免地推动我们从硬件和软件的角度采用以通信为中心的计算机系统设计方法。该拨款申请的重点是探索这种以通信为中心的计算机系统设计新观点，从工程线路到计算机体系结构、编译器设计、语言设计和应用程序映射。我们希望这笔赠款能够形成一个项目组合，解决涉及数千个节能处理器的未来计算系统的问题。以通信为中心的设计可以从几个抽象层次来看待：0 级 - 实现技术，我们将重点关注片上通信网络。第 1 级 - 计算机体系结构，重点是系统中通信流的优化。第 2 级 - 算法映射，允许在多核计算表面上自动放置数据和代码。第 3 级 - 编程语言和编译器设计还将构建基于 FPGA 的仿真基础设施，以便从 0 级和 1 级的硬件工作中获得研究成果，并有效支持在 2 级和 3 级进行的软件研究。

项目成果

Power Optimized Transceivers for Future Switched Networks

• DOI: 10.1109/tvlsi.2013.2283300
• 发表时间: 2014-10
• 期刊: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
• 影响因子: 2.8
• 作者: Yury Audzevich;P. Watts;A. West;A. Mujumdar;S. Moore;A. Moore

A Communication Characterisation of Splash-2 and Parsec

• DOI: 10.1109/iiswc.2009.5306792
• 发表时间: 2009-01-01
• 期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2009 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION
• 作者: Barrow-Williams, Nick;Fensch, Christian;Moore, Simon
• 通讯作者: Moore, Simon

Flow-aware allocation for on-chip networks

• DOI: 10.1109/nocs.2009.5071466
• 发表时间: 2009-05
• 期刊: 2009 3rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
• 作者: A. Banerjee;S. Moore

Proximity coherence for chip-multiprocessors

芯片多处理器的邻近一致性

• DOI: 10.17863/cam.16370
• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Barrow-Williams N

Implications of Electronics Technology Trends to Algorithm Design

电子技术趋势对算法设计的影响

• 发表时间: 2009
• 期刊: The Computer Journal
• 作者: D Greenfield