Kickstarting High-performance Energy-efficient Manycore Architectures with Epiphany

Autor:	Olofsson, Andreas, Nordström, Tomas, Ul-Abdin, Zain
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Computer Science - Hardware Architecture Computer Science - Distributed Parallel and Cluster Computing
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	In this paper we introduce Epiphany as a high-performance energy-efficient manycore architecture suitable for real-time embedded systems. This scalable architecture supports floating point operations in hardware and achieves 50 GFLOPS/W in 28 nm technology, making it suitable for high performance streaming applications like radio base stations and radar signal processing. Through an efficient 2D mesh Network-on-Chip and a distributed shared memory model, the architecture is scalable to thousands of cores on a single chip. An Epiphany-based open source computer named Parallella was launched in 2012 through Kickstarter crowd funding and has now shipped to thousands of customers around the world. Comment: (to appear in Asilomar Conference on signals, systems, and computers 2014)
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5538 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv