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An Embrace-and-Extend Approach to Managing the Complexity of Future Heterogeneous Systems

2009; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-03138-0_25

1611-3349

Rainer Buchty, Mario Kicherer, David Kramer, Wolfgang Karl,

Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

In this paper, we present a particularly lightweight, integrative approach to programming and executing applications targeting heterogeneous, dynamically reconfigurable parallel systems. Based on an analysis of existing approaches, we strictly focused on compatibility and lightweightedness. Our approach therefore follows an embrace-and-extend strategy and achieves desired functionality by adopting and augmenting existing system services, achieving the desired properties. We implemented this concept using the Linux OS and demonstrated its suitability with a heterogeneous platform comprising IA32 multicore processors and current FPGA accelerator hardware using state-of-the-art HyperTransport interconnection technology.