Application control and monitoring in heterogeneous multiprocessor systems
Application control and monitoring in heterogeneous multiprocessor systems
Multiprocessor systems provide both highperformance and energy-efficient execution of applications on mobile and embedded systems under dynamic workload requirements, and can provide increased lifetime for devices in energy-constrained environments. However, their increasing complexity means that management at runtime has become a non-trivial task, especially in heterogeneous multiprocessor systems. In addition, there is no standardised mechanism to expose and manage the sources of control and monitoring from within applications and hardware resources at runtime.
This paper presents an analysis of applications, platforms and runtime management approaches to motivate the need for a standardised framework that enables fully applicationand platform-agnostic runtime management. The exposure of application controls and requirements through the presented framework is demonstrated with a stereo matching algorithm, including runtime management of multi-threading and frequency scaling on the 61-core Xeon Phi platform. In addition, the trading of application parameters, such as throughput and accuracy, is demonstrated within the framework using a runtime controller on the Odroid-XU3 platform. An open-source implementation of this framework has been released.
Heterogeneous systems, application-awareness, runtime management, software frameworks
Leech, Charles R.
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Al-Hashimi, Bashir
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Leech, Charles R.
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Merrett, Geoff
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Leech, Charles R., Bragg, Graeme McLachlan, Balsamo, Domenico, Weber Wachter, Eduardo, Merrett, Geoff and Al-Hashimi, Bashir
(2018)
Application control and monitoring in heterogeneous multiprocessor systems.
13th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip, , Lille, France.
09 - 11 Jul 2018.
8 pp
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Multiprocessor systems provide both highperformance and energy-efficient execution of applications on mobile and embedded systems under dynamic workload requirements, and can provide increased lifetime for devices in energy-constrained environments. However, their increasing complexity means that management at runtime has become a non-trivial task, especially in heterogeneous multiprocessor systems. In addition, there is no standardised mechanism to expose and manage the sources of control and monitoring from within applications and hardware resources at runtime.
This paper presents an analysis of applications, platforms and runtime management approaches to motivate the need for a standardised framework that enables fully applicationand platform-agnostic runtime management. The exposure of application controls and requirements through the presented framework is demonstrated with a stereo matching algorithm, including runtime management of multi-threading and frequency scaling on the 61-core Xeon Phi platform. In addition, the trading of application parameters, such as throughput and accuracy, is demonstrated within the framework using a runtime controller on the Odroid-XU3 platform. An open-source implementation of this framework has been released.
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Accepted/In Press date: 1 June 2018
Published date: July 2018
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13th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip, , Lille, France, 2018-07-09 - 2018-07-11
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Heterogeneous systems, application-awareness, runtime management, software frameworks
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Charles R. Leech
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Eduardo Weber Wachter
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Geoff Merrett
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Bashir Al-Hashimi
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