Dr. Eun Jung Kim, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop a framework for high-performance and energy-efficient on-chip network mechanisms in synergy with Multicore Accelerator. Kim is the principal investigator and Dr. Ki Hwan Yum is co-principal. The grant, awarded in July, is funded for three years through the NSF CCF Software and Hardware Foundations.
According to Kim the key contributions expected from the project are: building a simulation testbed and analyzing the behavior of on-chip traffic workloads in multicore accelerators; proposing mechanisms for a high-performance and energy-efficient Network-on-Chip (NoC) by utilizing emerging memory and NoC technologies in addition to novel topologies and routing mechanisms; developing methodologies at the NoC level that will support data prefetching mechanisms in the multicore accelerators; and providing multicast support and packet coalescing in the on-chip network to guarantee better system throughput.
"The results from this project are likely to foster new research directions in several areas of computer architecture and parallel computing," said Kim. "Also, high-performance and energy-aware computing and communication research is applicable to other areas, such as embedded systems and cloud computing. We will develop web-based tutorials to present and disseminate the results of this project, including tools and techniques, to a broad audience."
Among Kim's fields of interest are computer architecture, power/temperature control, computer system security, parallel/distributed systems, performance evaluation, and fault-tolerant computing. She is a 2009 recipient of the NSF Early Faculty Development (CAREER) Program Award.
Kim is the director of the High Performance Computing Laboratory. She is a 2003 graduate of Penn State University and has a doctorate in computer science and engineering. Kim also has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Taejeon and a master's degree in computer science and engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology in Pohang, Korea.