A Hardware/Software Stack for Heterogeneous Systems

Plenty of novel emerging technologies are being proposed and evaluated today, mostly at the device and circuit levels. It is unclear what the impact of different new technologies at the system level will be. What is clear, however, is that new technologies will make their way into systems and will i...

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Published inIEEE transactions on multi-scale computing systems Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 243 - 259
Main Authors Castrillon, Jeronimo, Frohlich, Jochen, Goens, Andres, Haas, Sebastian, Habich, Dirk, Hartig, Hermann, Hasler, Mattis, Huismann, Immo, Karnagel, Tomas, Karol, Sven, Kumar, Akash, Lieber, Matthias, Lehner, Wolfgang, Leuschner, Linda, Ling, Siqi, Marcker, Steffen, Menard, Christian, Mey, Johannes, Nagel, Wolfgang, Nothen, Benedikt, Penaloza, Rafael, Raitza, Michael, Kluppelholz, Sascha, Stiller, Jorg, Ungethum, Annett, Voigt, Axel, Wunderlich, Sascha, Volp, Marcus, Asmussen, Nils, Assmann, Uwe, Baader, Franz, Baier, Christel, Fettweis, Gerhard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway IEEE 01.07.2018
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Adaptive systems
cfaed
Circuits
cross layer design
emerging technologies
Hardware
hardware/software abstractions
heterogeneous systems
Integrated circuit interconnections
Memory management
Model checking
New technology
Operating systems
orchestration
post-CMOS
Principles
Programming
programming stack
Runtime
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Summary:Plenty of novel emerging technologies are being proposed and evaluated today, mostly at the device and circuit levels. It is unclear what the impact of different new technologies at the system level will be. What is clear, however, is that new technologies will make their way into systems and will increase the already high complexity of heterogeneous parallel computing platforms, making it ever so difficult to program them. This paper discusses a programming stack for heterogeneous systems that combines and adapts well-understood principles from different areas, including capability-based operating systems, adaptive application runtimes, dataflow programming models, and model checking. We argue why we think that these principles built into the stack and the interfaces among the layers will also be applicable to future systems that integrate heterogeneous technologies. The programming stack is evaluated on a tiled heterogeneous multicore.
ISSN:2332-7766
2332-7766
DOI:10.1109/TMSCS.2017.2771750