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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $299,212 to the University of Central Florida to develop an intelligent memory management framework. The project aims to address the complexities of efficiently managing memory in modern heterogeneous computing environments involving diverse processor and memory types. The key focus areas include: Employing machine learning models to predict memory access...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $215,908 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, Riverside under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a comprehensive memory management ecosystem called MEMDRIVE. The project aims to optimize memory usage throughout the application and system stack for resource-constrained embedded systems, addressing the "memory wall" problem that limits performance and...
This Project Grant award of $172,156 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports collaborative research on hardware and software solutions to enable memory-centric computing systems. The research aims to address fundamental challenges that hinder the realization of in-memory computing, leveraging the emerging Compute Express Link (CXL) technology. Key focus areas include optimizing fragmented memory resources, improving...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Project Grant, with a total award of $135,177, supports research into the design of scalable computing infrastructure that leverages non-volatile memory (NVM) devices for both storage and computation. The project investigates the use of parallel current flows through NVM crossbars for fast and energy-efficient in-memory digital computations, and novel automated synthesis techniques to...
This $274,765 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) establishes a foundation for efficient and intelligent unified memory design to harness the power of advanced GPU accelerators. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing an abstraction framework called ACCORD to capture the spatial and temporal patterns of massively parallel memory accesses, enabling quantitative...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $218,147 to the University of Wisconsin System to develop a new computing paradigm that leverages memory fabrics as a first-class resource for instantiating, orchestrating, and reclaiming computations. The 5-year project aims to rethink rack-scale system design from memory, computing, and communication perspectives. Key focus areas include classifying remote...
This Project Grant award of $644,035 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to enhance the performance and programmability of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The project focuses on integrating compute-in-memory (CIM) technology into FPGA memory blocks, which can significantly increase computing power and energy efficiency. Key objectives include: Integrating CIM support into high-level synthesis (HLS)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $229,578 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to develop hardware and software solutions that address key challenges in enabling a new paradigm of in-memory computing. The research project aims to tackle issues related to fragmented memory resources, insufficient architectural support for memory sharing, and the inefficient separation between...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program. The grant supports UCLA's research and development of a new virtual memory abstraction called "Soft Memory" and a Soft Memory Management System called MIDAS. This system enables cloud applications to efficiently utilize memory resources by dynamically provisioning and scaling...
This Project Grant award of $339,666 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research at the University of Rhode Island (URI) to redefine memory virtualization for emerging and future memory (EFM) technologies in cloud computing.
The project aims to significantly reduce cloud memory costs while maintaining high performance and usability for modern, memory-intensive cloud applications such as artificial intelligence. Key innovations include techniques to minimize virtualized EFM address translation overhead, virtualize slow memory as fast memory, and improve virtual machine live migration. The research is expected to enable data centers to achieve high performance, low cost, and high usability for large-scale memory systems. The five-year project also includes education plans to teach emerging cloud computing to college and K-12 students in collaboration with local schools.