Overview
- Details the fundamental characteristics of heterogeneous hardware and how it differs from traditional CPUs
- Describes current solutions on programming heterogeneous managed runtime environments
- Highlights the associated advantages and disadvantages for current solutions
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science (BRIEFSCOMPUTER)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book provides an introduction to both heterogeneous execution and managed runtime environments (MREs) by discussing the current trends in computing and the evolution of both hardware and software. To this end, it first details how heterogeneous hardware differs from traditional CPUs, what their key components are and what challenges they pose to heterogenous execution. The most ubiquitous ones are General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) which are pervasive across a plethora of application domains ranging from graphics processing to training of AI and Machine Learning models. Subsequently, current solutions on programming heterogeneous MREs are described, highlighting for each current existing solution the associated advantages and disadvantages.
This book is written for scientists and advanced developers who want to understand how choices at the programming API level can affect performance and/or programmability of heterogeneous hardware accelerators, how toimprove the underlying runtime systems in order to seamlessly integrate diverse hardware resources, or how to exploit acceleration techniques from their preferred programming languages.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Athanasios Stratikopoulos is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester with specialization on heterogeneous architectures and reconfigurable accelerators. He has authored more than 15 research articles in the field of hardware acceleration, system software and programming languages. Currently his work involves heterogeneous architectures ranging from low-power devices to high-end cloud deployments. His interests include computer architecture, high-performance computing, virtualization, and hardware acceleration.
Christos Kotselidis is an Associate Professor (Reader) at The University of Manchester and a Chief Engineer at Pierer Innovation. His research interests lie in the areas of managed runtime systems, CPU microarchitecture, compilers, memory management, and heterogeneous hardware acceleration. He is currently leading the TornadoVM project which enables hardware acceleration of Java applications along with several EU projects in the areas of green computing, cybersecurity, and edge-to-cloud system architectures.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Programming Heterogeneous Hardware via Managed Runtime Systems
Authors: Juan Fumero, Athanasios Stratikopoulos, Christos Kotselidis
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49559-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49558-8Published: 11 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49559-5Published: 10 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2191-5768
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5776
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 134
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Professional Computing, Computer Hardware, Java, Python