Semantically rich networks for many-core architectures

适用于多核架构的语义丰富的网络

基本信息

批准号：
372069-2009
负责人：
EnrightJerger, Natalie
金额：
$ 2.19万
依托单位：
University of Toronto
依托单位国家：
加拿大
项目类别：
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
加拿大
起止时间：
2013-01-01 至 2014-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=528492
关键词：
Semantically rich networks many core

项目摘要

Computers have become pervasive throughout our society. By increasing productivity and mobility, as well as providing new avenues of entertainment, computers have been commonplace in professional and personal lives. The wide array of uses and applications of computers present numerous challenges to hardware designers. In the last decade, the computer industry has begun to successfully integrate multiple processing cores on a single chip through improvements in manufacturing technology. In previous decades, purchasing parallel computing equipment represented a massive financial investment for a corporation. Today, parallel architectures are cheap enough to produce that they can be found in cell phones and laptops. As a result, parallel architectures are rapidly becoming ubiquitous. To leverage the computation power of these multiple cores, communication between cores or devices is essential. As in any teamwork activity, the best progress is made when all team members are communicating frequently and working together; it is much the same with parallel computer architectures. The work in this proposal looks at streamlining the communication between cores to increase its efficiency. Communication between cores should be natural and intuitive; this work proposes to improve the mechanisms that carry out that communication. Improvement in communication for computer architectures will have a wide impact across Canadian industry; software productivity and application development time will be improved substantially.

计算机已经在我们的社会中普及。通过提高生产力和移动性以及提供新的娱乐途径，计算机在职业和个人生活中已经司空见惯。计算机的广泛用途和应用给硬件设计人员带来了许多挑战。在过去的十年中，计算机行业已经开始通过制造技术的改进成功地将多个处理核心集成在单个芯片上。在过去的几十年里，购买并行计算设备对于公司来说是一笔巨大的财务投资。如今，并行架构的生产成本已经足够便宜，可以在手机和笔记本电脑中找到。因此，并行架构正在迅速变得普遍。为了利用这些多个内核的计算能力，内核或设备之间的通信至关重要。与任何团队合作活动一样，当所有团队成员频繁沟通并共同努力时，才能取得最佳进展；这与并行计算机体系结构非常相似。该提案中的工作着眼于简化内核之间的通信以提高其效率。核心之间的通信应该自然、直观；这项工作建议改进进行这种沟通的机制。计算机架构通信的改进将对整个加拿大工业产生广泛影响；软件生产力和应用程序开发时间将得到大幅提高。