Towards a Multicore Communications API Implementation (MCAPI) for the Intel Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC)

Author

Clauss, Carsten ; Pickartz, Simon ; Lankes, Stefan ; Bemmerl, Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Oper. Syst., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

25-29 June 2012

Firstpage

148

Lastpage

155

Abstract

In this paper, we present a prototype implementation of the Multicore Communications API (MCAPI) for the Intel Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC). The SCC is a 48 core concept vehicle for future many-core systems that exhibit message-passing oriented architectures. The MCAPI specification, recently developed by the Multicore Association, resembles a lightweight interface for message-passing in today´s multicore systems. The presented prototype implementation should be used to evaluate the MCAPI´s capability and feasibility for its employment also in future many-core systems.

Keywords

application program interfaces; cloud computing; message passing; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; software architecture; Intel single-chip cloud computer; MCAPI specification; SCC; lightweight interface; many-core systems; message passing oriented architectures; multicore association; multicore communications API implementation; multicore systems; Hardware; Multicore processing; Peer to peer computing; Programming; Standards; Topology; Communication Interfaces; Many-core;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), 2012 11th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Munich/Garching, Bavaria

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2599-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPDC.2012.28

Filename

6341506