Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
Contributors
1 Heterogeneous Data Center Architectures: Software&Hardware Integration and Orchestration Aspects
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Backgrounds
1.3 Heterogeneous devices in modern data centers
1.4 Orchestration in heterogeneous environments
1.5 Simulations
1.6 Conclusions
2 Modular Operating Systems for Large Scale, Distributed and Heterogeneous Environments
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Modern Applications
2.3 Related Work
2.4 Modular Operating Systems
2.5 Analysis
2.6 Conclusion
3 Programming and Architecture Models
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Heterogeneous Programming Models
3.3 Heterogeneous Programming Languages
3.4 Heterogeneous Device Selection
3.5 Emerging Programming Models and Architectures
3.6 Ongoing European Projects
3.7 Conclusions
4 Simplifying Parallel Programming and Execution for Distributed Heterogeneous Computing Platforms
4.1 Introduction
4.2 StarSs: a Task-based Approach
4.3 Related Work
4.4 Conclusion
5 Design-time Tooling to Guide Programming for Embedded Heterogeneous Hardware Platforms
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Placer - Input and Output Metamodels
5.3 Graphical Front-End
5.4 Placement algorithm
5.5 DS-Explorer
5.6 The AquaScan Case Study
5.7 Related Works
5.8 Conclusion and Future Work
6 Middleware, Infrastructure Management and Self-Reconfiguration for Heterogeneous Parallel Architecture Environments
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Architecture
6.3 Adaptation Framework
6.4 Experimental Design
6.5 Evaluation
6.6 Related Work
6.7 Conclusion
7 A Novel Framework for Utilising Multi-FPGAs in HPC Systems
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Framework
7.3 UNILOGIC & Hardware Platform
7.4 Runtime System
7.5 Accelerator Generation
7.6 Partial Reconfiguration
7.7 Conclusions
8 A Quantitative Comparison for Image Recognition on Accelerated Heterogeneous Cloud Infrastructures
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Computational approaches on Caffe
8.3 Performance evaluation and quantitative comparison
8.4 Conclusions
9 Machine Learning on Low-Power Low-Cost Platforms: an Application Case Study
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Backgrounds
9.3 Running CNNs on a bare-metal accelerator: a case study
9.4 Solution design
9.5 Experimental evaluation
9.6 Conclusion
10 Security for Heterogeneous Systems
10.1 Heterogeneous systems today
10.2 Heterogeneous systems issues
10.3 PDR secure framework
10.4 Conclusion
11 Real-Time Heterogeneous Platforms
11.1 Real Time task models
11.2 Architecture
11.3 Software support and programming models for future RT systems
12 Future Challenges in Heterogeneity
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The heterogeneous computing continuum
12.3 Processing architectures evolution
12.4 Programming challenges
12.5 Orchestration in heterogeneous environments
12.6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index