yep. Slides will be very welcome as well.
On Jan 2, 2008 11:20 AM, Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would there be interest from the esteemed list members in hearing the > following paper, to be presented at ASPLOS '08? > > Tapping into the Fountain of CPUs---On Operating System Support for > Programmable Devices, by Yaron Weinsberg, Danny Dolev, Tal Anker, Muli > Ben-Yehuda, Pete Wyckoff. > > Abstract: The constant race for faster and more powerful CPUs is > drawing to a close. No longer is it feasible to significantly increase > the speed of the CPU without paying a crushing penalty in power > consumption and production costs. Instead of increasing single thread > performance, the industry is turning to multiple CPU threads or cores > (such as SMT and CMP) and heterogeneous CPU architectures (such as the > Cell Broadband Engine). While this is a step in the right direction, > in every modern PC there is a wealth of untapped compute > resources. The NIC has a CPU; the disk controller is programmable; > some high-end graphics adapters are already more powerful than host > CPUs. Some of these CPUs can perform some functions more efficiently > than the host CPUs. Our operating systems and programming > abstractions should be expanded to let applications tap into these > computational resources and make the best use of them. > > Therefore, we propose the Hydra framework, which lets application > developers use the combined power of every compute resource in a > coherent way. Hydra is a programming model and a runtime support layer > which enables utilization of host processors as well as various > programmable peripheral devices' processors. We present the framework > and its application for a demonstrative use-case, as well as provide a > thorough evaluation of its capabilities. Using Hydra we were able to > cut down the development cost of a system that uses multiple > heterogenous compute resources significantly. > > Cheers, > Muli > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > Haifux@haifux.org > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux > -- Orr Dunkelman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that reason infallibly be faulty" -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick. GPG fingerprint: C2D5 C6D6 9A24 9A95 C5B3 2023 6CAB 4A7C B73F D0AA (This key will never sign Emails, only other PGP keys. The key corresponds to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
