RAMP: Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors

Author

Wawrzynek, John ; Patterson, David ; Oskin, Mark ; Lu, Shih-Lien ; Kozyrakis, Christoforos ; Hoe, James C. ; Chiou, Derek ; Asanovic, Krste

Author_Institution

California Univ., Berkeley

Volume

27

Issue

2

fYear

2007

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

57

Abstract

The RAMP project´s goal is to enable the intensive, multidisciplinary innovation that the computing industry will need to tackle the problems of parallel processing. RAMP itself is an open-source, community-developed, FPGA-based emulator of parallel architectures. its design framework lets a large, collaborative community develop and contribute reusable, composable design modules. three complete designs - for transactional memory, distributed systems, and distributed-shared memory - demonstrate the platform´s potential.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; multiprocessing systems; parallel processing; public domain software; FPGA-based emulator; RAMP; distributed systems; distributed-shared memory; multiple processors; open-source emulator; paralle lprocessing; parallel architecture; research accelerator; transactional memory; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Concurrent computing; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Microprocessors; Open source software; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Technological innovation; distributed systems; distributed-shared memory; emulation; field-programmable gate arrays; hardware-software codesign; integration; modeling of computer architecture; parallel architectures; transactional memory;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MM.2007.39

Filename

4287395