A Hardware-Software Design Framework for Distributed Cellular Computing

Pierre-Andre Mudry; Julien Ruffin; Michel Gauguin; Gianluca Tempesti

A Hardware-Software Design Framework for Distributed Cellular Computing

Pierre-Andre Mudry, Julien Ruffin, Michel Gauguin, Gianluca Tempesti

Electronic Engineering

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

In this article, we describe a novel hardware-software design framework for prototyping cellular architectures in hardware. Based on an extensible platform of about 200 FPGAs, configured as a net,worked structure of processors, the hardware part of this computing framework is backed by an extensible library of software components that provides primitives for efficient inter-processor communication and distributed computation. This dual software-hardware approach allows a very quick exploration of different ways to solve computational problems using bio-inspired techniques. To demonstrate the validity of the method, we present, an example of how a traditional parallel system such as a cellular automaton can be modeled and run with this perspective. In addition, we also show that the flexibility of our approach allows not only cellular automata but any computation to be easily implemented on a cellular substrate.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	71-82
Number of pages	12
Journal	INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND SYSTEMS DESIGN: POWER AND TIMING MODELING, OPTIMIZATION AND SIMULATION
Volume	5216
Publication status	Published - 2008

Keywords

ON-CHIP
NETWORKS

Cite this

@article{076889cd11e14575aff819f72f0e25eb,

title = "A Hardware-Software Design Framework for Distributed Cellular Computing",

abstract = "In this article, we describe a novel hardware-software design framework for prototyping cellular architectures in hardware. Based on an extensible platform of about 200 FPGAs, configured as a net,worked structure of processors, the hardware part of this computing framework is backed by an extensible library of software components that provides primitives for efficient inter-processor communication and distributed computation. This dual software-hardware approach allows a very quick exploration of different ways to solve computational problems using bio-inspired techniques. To demonstrate the validity of the method, we present, an example of how a traditional parallel system such as a cellular automaton can be modeled and run with this perspective. In addition, we also show that the flexibility of our approach allows not only cellular automata but any computation to be easily implemented on a cellular substrate.",

keywords = "ON-CHIP, NETWORKS",

author = "Pierre-Andre Mudry and Julien Ruffin and Michel Gauguin and Gianluca Tempesti",

year = "2008",

language = "English",

volume = "5216",

pages = "71--82",

journal = "INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND SYSTEMS DESIGN: POWER AND TIMING MODELING, OPTIMIZATION AND SIMULATION",

issn = "0302-9743",

publisher = "Springer",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - A Hardware-Software Design Framework for Distributed Cellular Computing

AU - Mudry, Pierre-Andre

AU - Ruffin, Julien

AU - Gauguin, Michel

AU - Tempesti, Gianluca

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - In this article, we describe a novel hardware-software design framework for prototyping cellular architectures in hardware. Based on an extensible platform of about 200 FPGAs, configured as a net,worked structure of processors, the hardware part of this computing framework is backed by an extensible library of software components that provides primitives for efficient inter-processor communication and distributed computation. This dual software-hardware approach allows a very quick exploration of different ways to solve computational problems using bio-inspired techniques. To demonstrate the validity of the method, we present, an example of how a traditional parallel system such as a cellular automaton can be modeled and run with this perspective. In addition, we also show that the flexibility of our approach allows not only cellular automata but any computation to be easily implemented on a cellular substrate.

AB - In this article, we describe a novel hardware-software design framework for prototyping cellular architectures in hardware. Based on an extensible platform of about 200 FPGAs, configured as a net,worked structure of processors, the hardware part of this computing framework is backed by an extensible library of software components that provides primitives for efficient inter-processor communication and distributed computation. This dual software-hardware approach allows a very quick exploration of different ways to solve computational problems using bio-inspired techniques. To demonstrate the validity of the method, we present, an example of how a traditional parallel system such as a cellular automaton can be modeled and run with this perspective. In addition, we also show that the flexibility of our approach allows not only cellular automata but any computation to be easily implemented on a cellular substrate.

KW - ON-CHIP

KW - NETWORKS

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349863221&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Article

SN - 0302-9743

VL - 5216

SP - 71

EP - 82

JO - INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND SYSTEMS DESIGN: POWER AND TIMING MODELING, OPTIMIZATION AND SIMULATION

JF - INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND SYSTEMS DESIGN: POWER AND TIMING MODELING, OPTIMIZATION AND SIMULATION

ER -

A Hardware-Software Design Framework for Distributed Cellular Computing

Abstract

Keywords

Other files and links

Cite this