| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/P006434/1 |
| Title: |
Manycore Research Innovation and Opportunities Network (MaRIONet) |
| Principal Investigator: |
Singer, Dr J |
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| Department: |
School of Computing Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Glasgow |
| Scheme: |
Network |
| Starts: |
01 November 2016 |
Ends: |
31 March 2020 |
Value (£): |
91,619
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Computer Sys. & Architecture |
Fundamentals of Computing |
| Software Engineering |
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| Panel History: |
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19 Jul 2016
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EPSRC ICT Prioritisation Panel - Jul 2016
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Announced
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
The transition to manycore systems is arguably the greatest challenge
facing the ICT industry, Computational Science, and Computing Science
research. The challenge is globally recognised, and is an EPSRC ICT priority:
Manycore Architectures in Distributed and Embedded Systems (MACDES).
The proposed network will identify and bring together a critical mass
of UK manycore researchers.
The manycore revolution is fundamentally changing multiple levels of
the computation execution stack: from processor architecture, through
systems software, to applications. The UK has world leading
researchers and industrialists working on specific technologies at
each level, but currently researchers and engineers do not collaborate
adequately on the complex manycore challenges. Furthermore,
meaningful industry engagement is limited, despite the large number of
UK-based industrial research labs with strategic interest in manycore
systems.
We will foster effective communication between academic and industrial
research teams both at different levels in the execution stack
(e.g. compiler developers targeting an emergent architecture), and
within each level (e.g. program analysis applied to improve memory
access latency in the systems layer). The teams will benefit by being
able to identify and exploit synergies and opportunities for
cross-pollination.
We will establish well defined, highly available channels for
communication and low-overhead mechanisms for collaboration. Given
that many world-class UK researchers are isolated in relatively small
departments and research groups, the network will enable national
sharing of ideas, information and infrastructure. Community support
and resource pooling will enable UK researchers to achieve greater
academic impact globally, competing effectively with larger,
well-resourced groups in the USA (e.g. Aspire Lab at Berkeley), China
(e.g. State Key Lab of Computer System and Architecture, Chinese
Academy of Sciences), and elsewhere.
Both architectural innovation and systems software development are
massive investments, often involving person-decades of
effort. MaRIONet will enable sharing of expertise and infrastructure
to lower the barrier to entry for UK systems researchers working in
this area. Industrial network partners will gain exposure to
cutting-edge research, and ideas to address current problems. Academic
partners gain real-world use cases and grand challenges.
At least three of the UK Policy Exchange `Eight great technologies'
are directly enabled by the increased scale and speed of future manycore
systems and software, namely:
* Big Data revolution: enabled by manycore systems for
energy-efficient collection, analysis and storage of big data.
* Robotics and autonomous systems: enabled by manycore
systems for artificial intelligence, planning, image recognition,
humanoid motion control.
* Synthetic biology: enabled by manycore processing of biological
data, in-silico simulation of bio-mechanisms.
Hence we anticipate that future UK economic growth and societal well-being
will be strongly influenced by manycore technology, which is the focus of
our research network.
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