Semantically rich networks for many-core architectures

计算机已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。计算机的广泛使用和应用对硬件设计者提出了许多挑战。 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公司来说是一项巨大的财务投资。 今天，并行架构的成本已经足够低，可以在手机和笔记本电脑中找到。 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，当所有团队成员经常交流并一起工作时，取得的进展最好;并行计算机架构也是如此。 该提案中的工作着眼于简化核心之间的通信以提高其效率。 核心之间的通信应该是自然和直观的;这项工作建议改进执行该通信的机制。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;软件生产率和应用程序开发时间将大大提高。

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.