Abstract

This presentation provides an overview of the status of work to provide a scalable multicore research platform that boots an OS (Linux) and supports the integration of heterogeneous ISAs and hardware accelerators. Given the importance of memory interactions in these systems, the team has built a scalable platform that can be instantiated on a FPGA with different configurations that can be scrutinized at run time using configurable performance monitors. The FUSE API , developed independently, is now being integrated to support research into heterogeneous multicore platforms.

Bio: Lesley Shannon is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of New Brunswick in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1999, and then completed her M.A.Sc. and her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Her primary area of interest is Computing System Design, specifically: Reconfigurable Computing and Application-Specific Architectures, FPGA Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools, Operating System Abstractions and Scheduling for Asymmetric/Heterogeneous Multicore Systems, and Reconfigurable Microfluidics.