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Center for Space, High-Performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC)

Center Overview

The Center for Space, High-Performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC) is dedicated to assisting U.S. industrial partners, government agencies, and research organizations in mission-critical computing, with research in:

Space computing for earth science, space science, and defense.
High-performance computing for a broad range of grand-challenge applications.
Resilient computing for dependability in harsh or critical environments.

With the complementary nature of expertise at each of its sites, SHREC addresses research challenges facing these three domains of mission-critical computing by exploiting existing and emerging computing technologies, including digital signal processors, field-programmable gate arrays, graphical processing units, hybrid processors, advanced memories, and high-speed interconnects.

Universities

Brigham Young University
University of Pittsburgh
University of Florida
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Center Personnel

Herman Lam
Center Staff
+1 352 392 3516
hlam@ufl.edu

Wuchun Feng
Center Staff
+1 540 231 5281
feng@cs.vt.edu

Michael Wirthlin
Center Staff
+1 801 422 3360
wirthlin@byu.edu

Alan George
Center Staff
+1 412 624 7400
alan.george@pitt.edu

Research Focus

High-performance computing

SHREC explores the application and productive use of heterogeneous computing technologies and architectures in support of high-speed, mission-critical computing.

Resilient computing

SHREC exploits its expertise in fault injection and mitigation as well as radiation testing to demonstrate unique reliability concepts and solutions, including adaptive hardware redundancy, fault masking, and software fault tolerance.

Space computing

SHREC develops, evaluates, and deploys novel forms of space architectures, apps, computers, networks, services, and systems, while leveraging commercial and radiation-hardened or tolerant technologies.

Awards

1738420

Phase I IUCRC University of Florida: Center for Space, High-Performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC)

Under the auspices of the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) program at the National Science Foundation, a new national research Center has been jointly established, the Center for Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC). This Center comprises three university Sites, including the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) as lead institution, and Brigham Young University (BYU) and the University of Florida (UF) as partner institutions. The SHREC Center is dedicated to assisting U.S. industrial partners, government agencies, and research organizations in mission-critical computing, with research in three domains: space computing for Earth science, space science, and defense; high-performance computing for a broad range of grand-challenge apps; and resilient computing for dependability in harsh or critical environments. The university Sites of the SHREC Center will help address the shortage in the mission-critical computing workforce by training many students with the knowledge and skills necessary to solve the many challenges facing this growing industry. With the complementary nature of expertise at each Site, the SHREC Center will address research challenges facing the three domains of mission-critical computing, by exploiting a variety of existing and emerging computing technologies, including digital signal processors, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), graphical processing units (GPUs), hybrid processors, advanced memories, and high-speed interconnects. For space computing, a specialty at the Pitt and BYU Sites, the Center will develop, evaluate, and deploy novel forms of space architectures, apps, computers, networks, services, and systems, while leveraging commercial and radiation-hardened or -tolerant technologies. For high-performance computing, a specialty at the UF and Pitt Sites, the Center will explore the application and productive use of heterogeneous computing technologies and architectures in support of high-speed, mission-critical computing. For resilient computing, a specialty at the BYU and Pitt Sites, the Center will exploit its expertise in fault injection and mitigation as well as radiation testing to demonstrate unique reliability concepts and solutions, including adaptive hardware redundancy, fault masking, and software fault tolerance. Read More >

1822080

Phase-I IUCRC Virginia Tech: Center for Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC)

With this effort, Virginia Tech becomes a research Site of the existing Center for Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC), an NSF Industry-University Collaborative Research Center. SHREC comprises four university Sites: University of Pittsburgh, Brigham Young University, University of Florida, and Virginia Tech. The Center is dedicated to assisting U.S. industrial partners, government agencies, and research organizations in mission-critical computing across three domains: space computing for Earth science, space science, and defense; high-performance computing across a broad range of grand-challenge applications; and resilient computing for dependability in harsh or critical environments. The Center also seeks to address the shortage in the mission-critical computing workforce by training many students with the knowledge and skills necessary to solve the many challenges facing this growing industry. With the complementary nature of expertise at each Site, the Center will address research challenges facing the three aforementioned domains of mission-critical computing by exploiting a variety of existing and emerging computing technologies, including field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), graphical processing units (GPUs), and hybrid processors. For space computing, the Center will develop, evaluate, and deploy novel forms of space architectures, systems, and applications while leveraging commercial and radiation-hardened technologies. For high-performance computing, the Center will explore the application and productive use of heterogeneous computing technologies and architectures in support of high-speed, mission-critical computing. For resilient computing, the Center will exploit its expertise in energy-efficient embedded computing for resilience and in fault injection and mitigation and radiation testing to demonstrate reliability concepts and solutions, including adaptive hardware redundancy, fault masking, and software fault tolerance. Research projects in the SHREC IUCRC will significantly benefit society in terms of economic impact, due to the advancement of new ideas and technologies adopted by industry partners and featured in Center publications. Moreover, the new IUCRC will be student-centric, where each industrial affiliate board (IAB) membership funds a graduate student, and each project aims to support a graduate thesis and will employ a diverse body of undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to its research activities, the Center will serve as a catalyst for supporting and broadening the educational and outreach missions of its university partners and members. Artifacts that result from this SHREC IUCRC will be maintained at the Center-wide repository at http://www.chrec.org/ and gradually transitioned to https://nsf-shrec.org/. In addition, as appropriate, code and data will be hosted at an open-source GIT repository such as github, gitlab, or gitea. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria. Read More >

1738783

Phase I IUCRC University of Pittsburgh: Center for Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC)

1738550

Phase I IUCRC Brigham Young University: Center for Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC)

The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the Center author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.