Name
Title | ||
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A clustered manycore processor architecture for embedded and accelerated applications |
Abstract | ||
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The Kalray MPPA-256 processor integrates 256 user cores and 32 system cores on a chip with 28nm CMOS technology. Each core implements a 32-bit 5-issue VLIW architecture. These cores are distributed across 16 compute clusters of 16+1 cores, and 4 quad-core I/O subsystems. Each compute cluster and I/O subsystem owns a private address space, while communication and synchronization between them is ensured by data and control Networks-On-Chip (NoC). The MPPA-256 processor is also fitted with a variety of I/O controllers, in particular DDR, PCI, Ethernet, Interlaken and GPIO. We demonstrate that the MPPA-256 processor clustered manycore architecture is effective on two different classes of applications: embedded computing, with the implementation of a professional H.264 video encoder that runs in real-time at low power; and high-performance computing, with the acceleration of a financial option pricing application. In the first case, a cyclostatic dataflow programming environment is utilized, that automates application distribution over the execution resources. In the second case, an explicit parallel programming model based on POSIX processes, threads, and NoC-specific IPC is used. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.1109/HPEC.2013.6670342 | High Performance Extreme Computing Conference |
Keywords | DocType | ISSN |
CMOS integrated circuits,data flow computing,multiprocessing systems,network-on-chip,parallel architectures,CMOS technology,I/O subsystems,Kalray MPPA-256 processor,NoC,POSIX processes,VLIW architecture,clustered manycore processor architecture,compute cluster,cyclostatic dataflow programming environment,embedded computing,explicit parallel programming model,financial option pricing application,high-performance computing,networks-on-chip,professional H.264 video encoder | Conference | 2377-6943 |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-4799-1364-0 | 60 | 1.89 |
References | Authors | |
7 | 12 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benoît Dupont de Dinechin | 1 | 197 | 12.60 |
| Renaud Ayrignac | 2 | 60 | 1.89 |
| Pierre-Edouard Beaucamps | 3 | 81 | 2.91 |
| Patrice Couvert | 4 | 60 | 1.89 |
| Benoit Ganne | 5 | 60 | 1.89 |
| Pierre Guironnet de Massas | 6 | 71 | 2.74 |
| François Jacquet | 7 | 60 | 1.89 |
| Samuel Jones | 8 | 86 | 3.37 |
| Nicolas Morey Chaisemartin | 9 | 81 | 2.91 |
| Frédéric Riss | 10 | 61 | 2.28 |
| Thierry Strudel | 11 | 60 | 2.57 |
| Benoit Dupont de Dinechin | 12 | 88 | 4.86 |