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- Title
OPERATING SYSTEMS IN SILICON AND THE DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES IN MANY-CORE CHIPS.
- Authors
Jesshope, Chris
- Abstract
This discussion paper explores the problems of operating systems support when implementing concurrency controls at the level of the instruction set in processors designed for multi- and many-core chips. It introduces the SVP model and its implementation in DRISC processors to a level of detail required to understand these problems. The major contribution of the paper is in analysing the issues faced in porting operating system functionality onto such processors. The paper covers the issues of job scheduling, dynamic resource management, memory protection and security. It provides examples in μTC (a language based on the SVP model) of how resource management and security issues are managed. It concludes that the implementation of concurrency controls in a processors instruction set is very disruptive. However, the author sees no alternatives if mainstream computing is ever to be served effectively by multi- and many core processors.
- Subjects
COMPUTER operating systems; INTEGRATED circuits; QUEUING theory; COMPUTER multitasking; ELECTRONIC data processing
- Publication
Parallel Processing Letters, 2008, Vol 18, Issue 2, p257
- ISSN
0129-6264
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0129626408003375