An Immediate Concurrent Execution (ICE) Abstraction Proposal for Many-Cores

TitleAn Immediate Concurrent Execution (ICE) Abstraction Proposal for Many-Cores
Publication TypeJournal Articles
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsVishkin U
JournalComputer Science Research Works
Date Published2008/12//
Keywordsabstraction, many-cores, parallelism, XMT architecture
Abstract

Settling on a simple abstraction that programmers aim at, and hardware and software systems people enable and support, is an important step towards convergence to a robust many-core platform.The current paper: (i) advocates incorporating a quest for the simplest possible abstraction in the debate on the future of many-core computers, (ii) suggests “immediate concurrent execution (ICE)” as a new abstraction, and (iii) argues that an XMT architecture is one possible demonstration of ICE providing an easy-to-program general-purpose many-core platform.

URLhttp://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/8694