A Seamless Virtualization Approach for Transparent Dynamical Function Mapping Targeting Heterogeneous and Reconfigurable Systems

Authors:
Rainer Buchty;David Kramer;Fabian Nowak;Wolfgang Karl
Affiliations:
Institut für Technische Informatik, Lehrstuhl für Rechnerarchitektur, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany 76128;Institut für Technische Informatik, Lehrstuhl für Rechnerarchitektur, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany 76128;Institut für Technische Informatik, Lehrstuhl für Rechnerarchitektur, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany 76128;Institut für Technische Informatik, Lehrstuhl für Rechnerarchitektur, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany 76128
Venue:
ARC '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Future systems are not only heading towards increased parallelism, but also embrace heterogeneity and reconfigurability. We therefore present an approach targeting comfortable program development and execution, enabling full exploitation of the underlying hardware without burdening the application programmer with the details of the underlying hardware infrastructure. The approach employs lightweight resource virtualization by means of on-demand function resolution. By carefully extending the existing system infrastructure, the approach comes at virtually no cost and with highest compatibility to existing legacy code. The approach is suitable for a wide range of architectures from embedded systems to high-performance computing platforms.