Semantically rich networks for many-core architectures

适用于多核架构的语义丰富的网络

• 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

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变得无处不在。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师带来了许多挑战。在过去的十年中，通过制造技术的改进，计算机行业已经开始成功地将多个处理核心集成到单个芯片上。在过去的几十年里，购买并行计算设备对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低，可以在手机和笔记本电脑中找到它们。因此，并行架构正迅速变得无处不在。为了利用这些多核的计算能力，核心或设备之间的通信是必不可少的。在任何团队活动中，当所有团队成员都经常沟通和共同努力时，就会取得最好的进展；这与并行计算机体系结构非常相似。本提案中的工作着眼于简化核心之间的通信以提高其效率。核心之间的交流应该是自然和直观的；这项工作建议改进进行这种交流的机制。计算机体系结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大大提高。