Mapping multiple applications with unbounded and bounded number of cores on many-core networks-on-chip
: Yang B, Guang L, Santti T, Plosila J
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
: 2013
: Microprocessors and Microsystems
: MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROSYSTEMS
: MICROPROCESS MICROSY
: 4-5
: 37
: 4-5
: 460
: 471
: 12
: 0141-9331
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpro.2012.08.005
With increasing processing capability and communication scalability, the many-core Network-on-Chip (NoC) provides great potential for massively parallel computing. Running multiple applications simultaneously on a many-core NoC is a promising approach to implement high performance parallel processing. This paper presents a novel methodology for mapping multiple applications adaptively with unbounded or bounded number of cores. Composed of application mapping and task mapping, the proposed two-step mapping methodology provides minimized communication energy consumption and execution time for multiple applications. It is evaluated by several kernels and real applications with a variety of settings on a NoC simulator. The quantitative experiments demonstrate the superior performance and energy efficiency of the proposed mapping methods. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.