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

fYear

2009

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

414

Lastpage

419

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, 2009 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Higashi Hiroshima

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3914-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDCAT.2009.77

Filename

5372768