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An application- and platform-agnostic control and monitoring framework for multicore systems

An application- and platform-agnostic control and monitoring framework for multicore systems
An application- and platform-agnostic control and monitoring framework for multicore systems
Heterogeneous multiprocessor systems have increased in complexity to provide both high performance and energy efficiency for a diverse range of applications. This motivates the need for a standard framework that enables the management, at runtime, of software applications executing on these processors. This paper proposes the first fully application and platform-agnostic framework for runtime management approaches that control and optimise software applications and hardware resources. This is achieved by separating the system into three distinct layers connected by an API and cross-layer constructs called knobs and monitors. The proposed framework also supports the management of applications that are executing concurrently on heterogeneous platforms. The operation of the proposed framework is experimentally validated using a basic runtime controller and two heterogeneous platforms, to show how it is application- and platform-agnostic and easy to use. Furthermore, the management of concurrently executing applications through the framework is demonstrated. Finally, two recently reported runtime management approaches are implemented to demonstrate how the framework enables their operation and comparison. The energy and latency overheads introduced by the framework have been quantified and an opensource implementation has been released.
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Bragg, Graeme McLachlan, Leech, Charles R., Balsamo, Domenico, Davis, James J., Weber Wachter, Eduardo, Merrett, Geoff, Constantinides, George A. and Al-Hashimi, Bashir (2018) An application- and platform-agnostic control and monitoring framework for multicore systems. 3rd International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing, , Porto, Portugal. 29 - 30 Jul 2018.

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Heterogeneous multiprocessor systems have increased in complexity to provide both high performance and energy efficiency for a diverse range of applications. This motivates the need for a standard framework that enables the management, at runtime, of software applications executing on these processors. This paper proposes the first fully application and platform-agnostic framework for runtime management approaches that control and optimise software applications and hardware resources. This is achieved by separating the system into three distinct layers connected by an API and cross-layer constructs called knobs and monitors. The proposed framework also supports the management of applications that are executing concurrently on heterogeneous platforms. The operation of the proposed framework is experimentally validated using a basic runtime controller and two heterogeneous platforms, to show how it is application- and platform-agnostic and easy to use. Furthermore, the management of concurrently executing applications through the framework is demonstrated. Finally, two recently reported runtime management approaches are implemented to demonstrate how the framework enables their operation and comparison. The energy and latency overheads introduced by the framework have been quantified and an opensource implementation has been released.

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Accepted/In Press date: 15 June 2018
Published date: July 2018
Venue - Dates: 3rd International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing, , Porto, Portugal, 2018-07-29 - 2018-07-30

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Local EPrints ID: 422025
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/422025
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ORCID for Graeme McLachlan Bragg: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5201-7977
ORCID for Charles R. Leech: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2403-3873
ORCID for Geoff Merrett: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-3894

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Date deposited: 12 Jul 2018 16:31
Last modified: 01 Oct 2024 04:05

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Author: Graeme McLachlan Bragg ORCID iD
Author: Charles R. Leech ORCID iD
Author: Domenico Balsamo
Author: James J. Davis
Author: Eduardo Weber Wachter
Author: Geoff Merrett ORCID iD
Author: George A. Constantinides
Author: Bashir Al-Hashimi

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