Project Grant 2400014

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Office of Research Division (UCF) to conduct research on taming large memory page challenges for memory bulk operations using a hardware/software co-design approach. The goal is to significantly improve the speed and bandwidth of single-level DRAM combined with ultra-low latency, non-volatile memory architectures for both CPU and GPU systems. Key research activities include designing a general-purpose, fine-grained memory management system, exploiting unused and overprovisioned hardware resources to enable efficient copy-on-write mechanisms, and integrating the new memory architecture with big data management, AI programs, and hardware security workflows. The project aims to accelerate secure non-volatile memory architectures by orders of magnitude in performance improvement and will contribute to engaging underrepresented groups from a Hispanic-serving institution. The project period runs from Jul 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2027.