What Great Research ?s Can RAMP Help Answer?

1. What Great Research ?s Can RAMP Help Answer? What Are RAMP’s Grand Challenges ?

2. Grand Challenges • A complete software development vehicle for every parallel programmer • Debugger • Functionally • performance • Co-design with HW

3. Grand Challenges • Enable education and training of (parallel) programming • By providing useful feedbacks • By offering an inexpensive accessible parallel system

4. Grand Challenges • Enable the study of global system optimization so that a RAMP system is more efficient than “traditional computing systems” • For solving applications through parallelism

5. Research Questions • Scalability issue of MP systems • Design issues with systems consist of large number of processors • 1K • 10K • 100K

6. Research Questions • CMP Architecture • Die area allocations tradeoffs • Logic, memory and interconnect ratio • Power and thermal study • Interconnect topology evaluation • Performance study

7. Research Questions • Full system simulation • I/O behavior • Flexible performance monitoring of all levels of a system • OS effects • Debugging methodology

8. Research Questions • Modeling of very large systems • Generate workloads emulating a large system • “Internet in a box” • Input injection into a middleware/backend system

9. Research Questions • Interaction of SW and HW • Acceleration of special functions • Performance tradeoffs of SW/HW • New instructions and their implementation study • Software assertion’s effect observed by HW for software debugging

10. Research Questions • Synchronization of MP system • Lock speculation and transaction memory • Lock behavior modeling and evaluation • Lock permutation

11. Research Questions • Fault tolerance designs • Fault injection • Redundancy tradeoffs

12. Research Questions • Others • Validation of new designs against existing designs • Speed up functional simulation • Security