Title :
A Study of an Infrastructure for Research and Development of Many-Core Processors
Author :
Uehara, Koh ; Sato, Shimpei ; Miyoshi, Takefumi ; Kise, Kenji
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Many-core processors which have thousands of cores on a chip will be realized. We developed an infrastructure which accelerates the research and development of such many-core processors. This paper describes three main elements provided by our infrastructure. The first element is the definition of simple many-core processor architecture called M-Core. The second is SimMc, a software simulator of M-Core. The third is the software library MClib which helps the development of application programs for M-Core. The simulation speed of SimMc and the parallelization efficiency of M-Core are evaluated using some benchmark programs. We show that our infrastructure accelerates the research and development of many-core processors.
Keywords :
parallel architectures; parallel programming; software libraries; M-Core; MClib software; SimMc; many-core processors; parallelization efficiency; processor architecture; software library; software simulator; Acceleration; Application software; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; Information science; Mesh networks; Multicore processing; Research and development; Software libraries; Switches; infrastructure; many-core processor; processor architecture; simulator;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, 2009 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Higashi Hiroshima
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3914-0
DOI :
10.1109/PDCAT.2009.77
