Improving programmability of heterogeneous many-core systems via explicit platform descriptions

Programmability and performance portability aspects of heterogeneous multi-/manycore systems

“…In PEPPHER performancecritical parts of a C/C++ application (typically functions) are realized by means of multi-architectural components that encapsulate behind an interface different implementation variants of a function tailored to different architectural components (e.g., CPU and GPU) of a heterogeneous manycore system. Component interfaces and implementation variants are accompanied with rich meta-data, kept in external XML descriptors, describing the parameter intent (in, out, inout) and non-functional properties of implementation variants, including information about resource requirements, possible target platforms, and performance relevant parameters [13].…”

Fourth international workshop on multicore software engineering (IWMSE 2011)

“…Martin Sandrieser, Siegfried Benkner, and Sabri Pllana introduce in [6] an approach that improves the pro-Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.…”