EAGER: Productive and Scalable Utilization of Manycores in Big Data Applications

许多重要的电子应用，包括医学成像、网络安全和数字娱乐，都需要在有限的时间、功率和价格预算下处理大量数据。现代众核处理器芯片为计算这种数据密集型工作负载提供了一个有前途的平台，然而，由于并行软件开发的固有困难和生产力低下，它们的利用受到阻碍。该项目旨在通过开发方法和工具来解决这一关键问题，以便高效地开发可在数千个处理器核心上运行的软件。该方法的核心是“功能一致的结构可延展的流规范”的开发，该规范允许在硬件平台的约束下，在设计时探索丰富的软件实现空间，同时保持应用程序的端到端功能行为。该项目的成果预计将改善大量数据驱动学科的性能、能耗和应用程序开发成本，从医学成像和网络安全到多媒体等。

Many important electronics applications, including medical imaging, cyber security and digital entertainment, require processing massive amount of data under limited time, power and price budgets. Modern many-core processor chips offer a promising platform for computing such data-intensive workloads, however, their utilization is hindered due to the inherent difficulty and unproductivity of parallel software development at scale. The project aims to address this critical problem by developing methodologies and tools for productive and scalable development of software that would efficiently run on thousands of processor cores. Central to the approach is development of "functionally-consistent structurally-malleable streaming specification," which enables design-time exploration of a rich software implementation space, under the constraints of hardware platform, while maintaining the application's end-to-end functional behavior. The project results are expected to improve performance, energy consumption, and application development cost in a large number of data-driven disciplines, ranging from medical imaging and cyber security to multimedia and beyond.