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Self-Awareness as a Model for Designing and Operating Heterogeneous Multicores

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Christian Plessl,

Marco PlatznerAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), Volume 7, Issue 2

Article No.: 13, Pages 1 - 18

https://doi.org/10.1145/2617596

Published: 04 July 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Self-aware computing is a paradigm for structuring and simplifying the design and operation of computing systems that face unprecedented levels of system dynamics and thus require novel forms of adaptivity. The generality of the paradigm makes it applicable to many types of computing systems and, previously, researchers started to introduce concepts of self-awareness to multicore architectures. In our work we build on a recent reference architectural framework as a model for self-aware computing and instantiate it for an FPGA-based heterogeneous multicore running the ReconOS reconfigurable architecture and operating system. After presenting the model for self-aware computing and ReconOS, we demonstrate with a case study how a multicore application built on the principle of self-awareness, autonomously adapts to changes in the workload and system state. Our work shows that the reference architectural framework as a model for self-aware computing can be practically applied and allows us to structure and simplify the design process, which is essential for designing complex future computing systems.

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Self-Awareness as a Model for Designing and Operating Heterogeneous Multicores
1. Computer systems organization
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems

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ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems Volume 7, Issue 2

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Published: 04 July 2014

Accepted: 01 February 2014

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Received: 01 January 2013

Published in TRETS Volume 7, Issue 2

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