S-Net for multi-memory multicores

S-NET is a declarative coordination language and component technology aimed at modern multi-core/many-core architectures and systems-on-chip. It builds on the concept of stream processing to structure dynamically evolving networks of communicating asynchronous components. Components themselves are implemented using a conventional language suitable for the application domain. This two-level software architecture maintains a familiar sequential development environment for large parts of an application and offers a high-level declarative approach to component coordination. In this paper we present a conservative language extension for the placement of components and component networks in a multi-memory environment, i.e. architectures that associate individual compute cores or groups thereof with private memories. We describe a novel distributed runtime system layer that complements our existing multithreaded runtime system for shared memory multicores. Particular emphasis is put on effi...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: POPL
• Authors: Clemens Grelck, Jukka Julku, Frank Penczek
• Keywords: Architectures, Declarative Coordination Language, Familiar Sequential Development, POPL 2010, Programming Languages