Maintaining reference graphs of globally accessible objects in fully decentralized distributed systems

Since the advent of electronic computing, the processors’ clock speed has risen tremendously. Now that energy efficiency requirements have stopped that trend, the number of processing cores per machine started to rise. In near future, these cores will become more specialized, and their interconnections will form complex networks, both on-chip and beyond. This trend opens new fields of applications for high performance computing: Heterogeneous architectures offer different functionalities and thus support a wider range of applications. The increased compute power of these systems allows more complex simulations and numerical computations. Falling costs enable even small companies to invest in multi-core systems and clusters. However, the growing complexity might impede this growth. Imagine a cluster of thousands of interconnected heterogeneous processor cores. A software developer will need a deep knowledge about the underlying infrastructure as well as the data and communication d...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: HPDC
• Authors: Björn Saballus, Thomas Fuhrmann
• Keywords: Distributed Computing, Energy Efficiency Requirements, Heterogeneous Multi-core Machines, Heterogeneous Processor Cores, HPDC 2009