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Invasive Computing: An Overview

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A novel paradigm for designing and programming future parallel computing systems called invasive computing is proposed. The main idea and novelty of invasive computing is to introduce resource-aware programming support in the sense that a given program gets the ability to explore and dynamically spread its computations to neighbour processors in a phase called invasion, then to execute portions of code of high parallelism degree in parallel based on the available invasible region on a given multi-processor architecture. Afterwards, once the program terminates or if the degree of parallelism should be lower again, the program may enter a retreat phase, deallocate resources and resume execution again, for example, sequentially on a single processor. To support this idea of self-adaptive and resource-aware programming, not only new programming concepts, languages, compilers and operating systems are necessary but also revolutionary architectural changes in the design of Multi-Processor Systems-on-a-Chip must be provided so to efficiently support invasion, infection and retreat operations involving concepts for dynamic processor, interconnect and memory reconfiguration. This contribution reveals the main ideas, potential benefits and challenges for supporting invasive computing at the architectural, programming and compiler level in the future. It serves to give an overview of required research topics rather than being able to present mature solutions yet.

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Notes

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    For the explanation of the i-let concept, see paragraph “units of invasion” below.

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    This conception goes back to the notion of a “servlet”, which is a (Java) application program snippet targeted for execution within a web server.

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    Actually a map construct.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the following people for their support (in alphabetical order): Dr. Tamim Asfour, Dr. Lars Bauer, Prof. Jürgen Becker, Prof. Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Prof. Rüdiger Dillmann, Prof. Michael Gerndt, Dr. Frank Hannig, Sebastian Harl, Dr. Michael Hübner, Dr. Daniel Lohmann, Prof. Peter Sanders, Prof. Ulf Schlichtmann, Prof. Marc Stamminger, Prof. Walter Stechele, Prof. Rolf Wanka, Dr. Thomas Wild and all of their scientific staff members. Finally, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the German Research Foundation (DFG) to establish its collaborative research center TCRC89 on the topic of invasive computing, see http://www.invasic.de

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Teich, J., Henkel, J., Herkersdorf, A., Schmitt-Landsiedel, D., Schröder-Preikschat, W., Snelting, G. (2011). Invasive Computing: An Overview. In: Hübner, M., Becker, J. (eds) Multiprocessor System-on-Chip. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6460-1_11

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