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08441 Abstracts Collection -- Emerging Uses and Paradigms for Dynamic Binary Translation
From 26.10. to 31.10.2008, the Dagstuhl Seminar 08441 ``Emerging Uses and Paradigms for Dynamic Binary Translation \u27\u27 was held in Schloss Dagstuhl~--~Leibniz Center for Informatics.
During the seminar, several participants presented their current
research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of
the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of
seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section
describes the seminar topics and goals in general.
Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available
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Scalable Emulation of Heterogeneous Systems
The breakdown of Dennard's transistor scaling has driven computing systems toward application-specific accelerators, which can provide orders-of-magnitude improvements in performance and energy efficiency over general-purpose processors.
To enable the radical departures from conventional approaches that heterogeneous systems entail, research infrastructure must be able to model processors, memory and accelerators, as well as system-level changes---such as operating system or instruction set architecture (ISA) innovations---that might be needed to realize the accelerators' potential. Unfortunately, existing simulation tools that can support such system-level research are limited by the lack of fast, scalable machine emulators to drive execution.
To fill this need, in this dissertation we first present a novel machine emulator design based on dynamic binary translation that makes the following improvements over the state of the art: it scales on multicore hosts while remaining memory efficient, correctly handles cross-ISA differences in atomic instruction semantics, leverages the host floating point (FP) unit to speed up FP emulation without sacrificing correctness, and can be efficiently instrumented to---among other possible uses---drive the execution of a full-system, cross-ISA simulator with support for accelerators.
We then demonstrate the utility of machine emulation for studying heterogeneous systems by leveraging it to make two additional contributions. First, we quantify the trade-offs in different coupling models for on-chip accelerators. Second, we present a technique to reuse the private memories of on-chip accelerators when they are otherwise inactive to expand the system's last-level cache, thereby reducing the opportunity cost of the accelerators' integration
Web and Semantic Web Query Languages
A number of techniques have been developed to facilitate
powerful data retrieval on the Web and Semantic Web. Three categories
of Web query languages can be distinguished, according to the format
of the data they can retrieve: XML, RDF and Topic Maps. This article
introduces the spectrum of languages falling into these categories
and summarises their salient aspects. The languages are introduced using
common sample data and query types. Key aspects of the query
languages considered are stressed in a conclusion
VXA: A Virtual Architecture for Durable Compressed Archives
Data compression algorithms change frequently, and obsolete decoders do not
always run on new hardware and operating systems, threatening the long-term
usability of content archived using those algorithms. Re-encoding content into
new formats is cumbersome, and highly undesirable when lossy compression is
involved. Processor architectures, in contrast, have remained comparatively
stable over recent decades. VXA, an archival storage system designed around
this observation, archives executable decoders along with the encoded content
it stores. VXA decoders run in a specialized virtual machine that implements an
OS-independent execution environment based on the standard x86 architecture.
The VXA virtual machine strictly limits access to host system services, making
decoders safe to run even if an archive contains malicious code. VXA's adoption
of a "native" processor architecture instead of type-safe language technology
allows reuse of existing "hand-optimized" decoders in C and assembly language,
and permits decoders access to performance-enhancing architecture features such
as vector processing instructions. The performance cost of VXA's virtualization
is typically less than 15% compared with the same decoders running natively.
The storage cost of archived decoders, typically 30-130KB each, can be
amortized across many archived files sharing the same compression method.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, 2 table
MODELA DBT: Model-driven elaboration language applied to dynamic binary translation
Industrial solutions design is a highly complex topic due to the challenge of integrating multiple technologies into a single solution, the inherent complexity of the problems to be solved and also because the proposed solutions often require a great level of interoperability among their components and also the outside world. Dynamic Binary Translation has been used as a tool to deal with such interoperability issues, e.g., legacy support, virtualization and secure execution, among others. However its integration in the industry as an end-product is hampered by the intricate variability management required in this subject. To address these issues and in an attempt to power DBT utilization as an interoperability-providing tool, we propose a model-driven DSL modeling language for DBT architectures. The developed DSL proved to be efficient to model an in-house DBT engine, and MODELA DBT, a framework for ready-to-use DBT solutions was obtained. MODELA DBT provides design validation, easy configuration of customizable DBT parameters and components, as well as code generation features.This work has been supported by COMPETE: POCI-Ol-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT - FundaĆ§Ć£o para a CiĆŖncia e figuration granularity, code generation efficiency and design verification. Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013. F. Salgado is supported by FCT (grant SFRH/BD/81681/2011)
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