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Invasive Computing - Common Terms and Granularity of Invasion
Future MPSoCs with 1000 or more processor cores on a chip require new means
for resource-aware programming in order to deal with increasing imperfections
such as process variation, fault rates, aging effects, and power as well as
thermal problems. On the other hand, predictable program executions are
threatened if not impossible if no proper means of resource isolation and
exclusive use may be established on demand. In view of these problems and
menaces, invasive computing enables an application programmer to claim for
processing resources and spread computations to claimed processors dynamically
at certain points of the program execution.
Such decisions may be depending on the degree of application parallelism and
the state of the underlying resources such as utilization, load, and
temperature, but also with the goal to provide predictable program execution on
MPSoCs by claiming processing resources exclusively as the default and thus
eliminating interferences and creating the necessary isolation between multiple
concurrently running applications. For achieving this goal, invasive computing
introduces new programming constructs for resource-aware programming that
meanwhile, for testing purpose, have been embedded into the parallel computing
language X10 as developed by IBM using a library-based approach.
This paper presents major ideas and common terms of invasive computing as
investigated by the DFG Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TR89.
Moreoever, a reflection is given on the granularity of resources that may be
requested by invasive programs