Design and Programming of Reconfigurable Mesh Based Many-Cores (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783832531652)

The paradigm shift towards many-core parallelism is accompanied by two fundamental questions: how should the many processors on a single die communicate to each other and what are suitable programming models for these novel architectures? In this thesis, the author tackles both questions by reviewing the reconfigurable mesh model of massively parallel computation for many-cores. The book presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a many-core architecture that is based on the execution principles and communication infrastructure of the reconfigurable mesh. This work fundamentally rests on FPGA implementations and shows that reconfigurable mesh processors with hundreds of autonomous cores are feasible. Several case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of programming and illustrate why the reconfigurable mesh is a promising model for many-cores.

Author: Heiner Giefers
ISBN-10: 3832531653
ISBN-13: 9783832531652
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2012
Pages: 173
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.70w x 0.40d