Title
Resource-aware programming and simulation of MPSoC architectures through extension of X10
Abstract
The efficient use of future MPSoCs with 1000 or more processor cores requires new means of resource-aware programming to deal with increasing imperfections such as process variation, fault rates, aging effects, and power as well as thermal problems. In this paper, we apply a new approach called invasive computing that enables an application programmer to spread computations to processors deliberately and on purpose at certain points of the program. Such decisions can be made depending on the degree of application parallelism and the state of the underlying resources such as utilization, load, and temperature. The introduced programming constructs for resource-aware programming are embedded into the parallel computing language X10 as developed by IBM using a library-based approach. Moreover, we show how individual heterogeneous MPSoC architectures may be modeled for subsequent functional simulation by defining compute resources such as processors themselves by lightweight threads that are executed in parallel together with the application threads by the X10 run-time system. Thus, the state changes of each hardware resource may be simulated including temperature, aging, and other useful monitor functionality to provide a first high-level programming test-bed for invasive computing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1988932.1988941
SCOPES
Keywords
Field
DocType
application programmer,x10 run-time system,parallel computing language,application thread,application parallelism,invasive computing,library-based approach,programming construct,resource-aware programming,mpsoc architecture,high-level programming,simulation,parallel computer,test bed,process variation
IBM,Computer science,Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Thread (computing),Reactive programming,Process variation,MPSoC,Multi-core processor,Event-driven programming,Embedded system,Computation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.69
9
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Hannig159575.66
Sascha Roloff2304.14
Gregor Snelting398294.40
Jürgen Teich42886273.54
Andreas Zwinkau5424.53