2023-05732 - Post-Doctoral Research Visit F/M Fault Tolerant Emerging On- Chip Interconnects
Contract type : Fixed-term contract
Renewable contract : Oui
Level of qualifications required : PhD or equivalent
Fonction : Post-Doctoral Research Visit
About the research centre or Inria departmentThe Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Centre is one of Inria's eight centres and has more than thirty research teams. The Inria Center is a major and recognized player in the field of digital sciences. It is at the heart of a rich R&D and innovation ecosystem: highly innovative PMEs, large industrial groups, competitiveness clusters, research and higher education players, laboratories of excellence, technological research institute, etc
ContextThis postdoc position will be funded by the Rakes and AllOpticall2 ANR Projects.
These projects involve Inria Taran (Rennes/Lannion), INL (Lyon), Lab-STICC (Lorient), and TIMA (Grenoble).
The Taran team has already a strong background in on-chip interconnects, and on the emerging interconnect paradigms (WiNoC, ONoC) targeted in this project.
AssignmentSubject
Since few years we are witnessing the emergence of manycore architectures, namely to the implementation of massive parallelism on a single chip. Associated with the shrinking size of the transistors, these manycore architectures should reach the integration of thousands of heterogeneous cores allowing huge parallel computation capabilities suitable for high-performance embedded computing systems and HPC.
In the last decade, electrical Network-on-Chips (ENoCs) have emerged as an efficient solution for multicore architectures, in the range of tens of cores on a-chip, to circumvent the parallelism limitations of traditional buses. Nevertheless, as the manycore era progresses, ENoCs suffer from scalability in terms of latency and energy due to a huge increase on the number of hops between cores 1, 2, hence emerging technologies are called to supplement this traditional interconnect.
In parallel, technology evolution has allowed for the integration of silicon photonics and wireless communications on chip, thus leading to the Wireless Network-on-Chip (WiNoC) 3-4 and Optical Network-on-Chip (ONoC) 5-6 paradigms. These emerging technologies are showing significant advantages for broadcasting data (WiNoC) and low-latency communications (ONoC), whereas conventional Electrical Network-on-Chip (ENoC) is reaching its limit 1. For future on-chip interconnect, it seems clear that the use of just one technology will lead to inefficient solutions, hence hybrid NoCs are using, which is a combination of two technologies.
However, disruptive technologies suffer from higher variability due to still maturing fabrication process . This prevents from their deployment, which calls for optimization methods and dedicated fault-tolerant hardware designs to improve their robustness. Moreover, as we approach the limit of CMOS scaling, it becomes increasingly unlikely for a computing device to be fully functional due to various sources of faults, especially in harsh environment such as in space 7.
This call to provide fault tolerant techniques to enhance robustness or to limit fault impacts on error resilient applications , e.g. neural networks or approximate computing 8, that is executed on emerging on-chip interconnects.
The scope of the PostDoc position is relatively open and applicants are expected to identify the direction that suits them the most as a function of their background and interest.
Main activitiesThe goal is to improve the fault-tolerance of emerging on-chip interconnects in the context of manycore architectures, and we seek to find systematic methods to answer the key questions:
Expected profile of the candidates:
Good knowledge of computer architecture, hardware design, and embedded systems.
Benefits packagemonthly gross salary amounting to 2746 euros
General InformationTheme/Domain : Architecture, Languages and Compilation Scientific computing (BAP E)
Town/city : Lannion
What is valued the most is autonomy. We expect the postdoc to be motivated and capable of composing short and mid-term objectives themselves.
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