My future research

As a supporting material, Antonia wrote the study plan for me, from which, although not very formal, I can see which area I will work in for the following 5-6 years.

"Moore's law has contributed to the ability to integrate exponentially more functionality on a chip with higher performance, and was counted upon as a self-fulfilling prophecy that the semiconductor industry would implement. More recently, such advances in the semiconductor technology have enabled the integration of many cores onto a single die, and thus placed a new challenge in front of all computer system designers. Namely, how can we make efficient use of such abundant resources; and how can we fully utilize many-core processors? While both the hardware and software designers hesitate to take full responsibility of these tasks, one promising solution emerges---building a virtualization layer that operates below the operating system level to automatically manage on-chip resources at runtime. Virtualization layer that operates at this level is commonly referred to as the Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). My group will investigate issues related to such VMMs from both the hardware and the software perspective.

At the maturity of this project, my team will provide a paradigm for designing a new generation of many-core processors that is capable of hiding the hardware complexity behind the VMM layer and present the software designers with a simple and reliable interface."

What an ambitious proposal! I am so interested and excited to take part of it.