TY - GEN
T1 - Minority-game-based resource allocation for run-time reconfigurable multi-core processors
AU - Shafique, Muhammad
AU - Bauer, Lars
AU - Ahmed, Waheed
AU - Henkel, Jörg
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A novel policy for allocating reconfigurable fabric resources in multi-core processors is presented. We deploy a Minority-Game to maximize the efficient use of the reconfigurable fabric while meeting performance constraints of individual tasks running on the cores. As we will show, the Minority Game ensures a fair allocation of resources, e.g., no single core will monopolize the reconfigurable fabric. Rather, all cores receive a "fair" share of the fabric, i.e., their tasks would miss their performance constraints by approximately the same margin, thus ensuring an overall graceful degradation. The policy is implemented on a Virtex-4 FPGA and evaluated for diverse applications ranging from security to multimedia domains. Our results show that the Minority-Game policy achieves on average 2x higher application performance and a 5x improved efficiency of resource utilization compared to state-of-the-art.
AB - A novel policy for allocating reconfigurable fabric resources in multi-core processors is presented. We deploy a Minority-Game to maximize the efficient use of the reconfigurable fabric while meeting performance constraints of individual tasks running on the cores. As we will show, the Minority Game ensures a fair allocation of resources, e.g., no single core will monopolize the reconfigurable fabric. Rather, all cores receive a "fair" share of the fabric, i.e., their tasks would miss their performance constraints by approximately the same margin, thus ensuring an overall graceful degradation. The policy is implemented on a Virtex-4 FPGA and evaluated for diverse applications ranging from security to multimedia domains. Our results show that the Minority-Game policy achieves on average 2x higher application performance and a 5x improved efficiency of resource utilization compared to state-of-the-art.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79957549283
SN - 9783981080179
T3 - Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE
SP - 1261
EP - 1266
BT - Proceedings - Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2011
T2 - 14th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2011
Y2 - 14 March 2011 through 18 March 2011
ER -