ENSEMBLE: A Communication Layer for Embedded Multi-Processor Systems

Authors:
Sidney Cadot;Frits Kuijlman;Koen Langendoen;Kees van Reeuwijk;Henk Sips
Affiliations:
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Venue:
OM '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Optimization of middleware and distributed systems
Year:
2001

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Abstract

The ENSEMBLE communication library exploits overlapping of message aggregation (computation) and DMA transfers (communication) for embedded multi-processor systems. In contrast to traditional communication libraries, ENSEMBLE operates on n-dimensional data descriptors that can be used to specify often-occurring data access patterns in n-dimentional arrays. This allows ENSEMBLE to setup a three-stage pack-transfer-unpack pipeline, effectively overlapping message aggregation and DMA transfers. ENSEMBLE is used to support Spar/Java, a Java-based language with SPMD annotations. Measurements on a TriMedia-based multi-processor system show that ENSEMBLE increases performance up to 39% for peer-to-peer communication, and up to 34% for all-to-all communication.