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| Author(s): |
Raoni Fassina Firmino
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Computação |
| Defense date: | 2010-06-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo;
Sergio Takeo Kofuji;
Sandro Rigo
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| Advisor: | Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation focuses on the present moment of transition between the current and new processor architectures, offering an alternative to minimize the impact of this change. For this, we use the Java platform, which enables an architecture-independent application development. Considering the Cell BE architecture as a new platform that promises high performance, this paper proposes improvements in the Java Virtual Machine that provide performance gains in the execution of Java applications running on the Cell processor. The proposed objective is achieved through the use of the environment available on the Java platform itself, the Java Native Interface (JNI), to implement interfaces between native libraries built for the Cell architecture - with the intention of obtaining the maximum possible performance - and the Java applications. It is proposed a model to port and build interfaces to libraries and it shows the viability of the proposed methodology with the implementation of selected libraries, consolidating the used methodology. Two libraries were completely ported as proof of concept, a multiplication of large matrices and a RC5 algorithm implementation. The matrices multiplication achieved scalability and performance in the same basis as the native implementation and incomparable with JNI implementation targering x86 architecture and Java implementation running in x86 and Cell architectures. The RC5 was just 0.3 seconds slower than the original C code (the loss is put in seconds since it was constant, independent of the execution time taken by different configurations of execution) (AU) | |