Title :
Rethinking Hardware-Software Codesign for Exascale Systems
Author :
Shalf, John ; Quinlan, Dan ; Janssen, Curtis
Abstract :
The rapid and disruptive changes anticipated in hardware design over this next decade necessitate a more agile development process, such as the hardware-software co-design processes developed for rapid product development in the embedded space. This article will describe the structure of the co-design process as applied to supercomputing systems, introduce the role of architectural simulation and code analysis to enable co-design, and describe the CoDEx project that is developing tools to accelerate the iterative co-design cycle for the DOE exascale computing program.
Keywords :
hardware-software codesign; mainframes; CoDEx project; DOE exascale computing program; agile development process; architectural simulation; code analysis; exascale system; hardware-software codesign; rapid product development; supercomputing systems; Agile manufacturing; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Green products; Hardware design languages; Exascale systems; Hardware-software codesign; High-performance computing;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2011.300
