A transactional runtime system for the Cell/BE architecture

Autor(es)

Baldassin, Alexandro ^[1] ; Goldstein, Felipe ^[2] ; Azevedo, Rodolfo ^[2]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Rio Claro - Brazil

^[2] Univ Estadual Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; v. 72, n. 12, p. 1535-1546, DEC 2012.
• Citações Web of Science: 2

Resumo

Single-core architectures have hit the end of the road and industry and academia are currently exploiting new multicore design alternatives. In special, heterogeneous multicore architectures have attracted a lot of attention but developing applications for such architectures is not an easy task due to the lack of appropriate tools and programming models. We present the design of a runtime system for the Cell/BE architecture that works with memory transactions. Transactional programs are automatically instrumented by the compiler, shortening development time and avoiding synchronization mistakes usually present in lock-based approaches (such as deadlock). Experimental results conducted with a prototype implementation and the STAMP benchmark show good scalability for applications with moderate to low contention levels, and whose transactions are not too small. For those cases in which a small performance loss is admissible, we believe that the ease of programming provided by transactions greatly pays off. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 11/19373-6 - Entendendo e explorando a correlação energia/desempenho em algoritmos concorrentes
• Beneficiário: Alexandro José Baldassin
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Jovens Pesquisadores