Breaking the Boundaries in Heterogeneous-ISA Datacenters
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 136880329
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/3037697.3037738
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- ASPLOS '17: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
- First page
- 645
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0163-5964
- Open access status
- Deposit exception
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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6
- Research group(s)
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A - Computer Systems
- Citation count
- 4
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This work introduces a new software framework enabling applications to dynamically migrate between computers using different Instruction Set Architectures (e.g., ARM and x86) with minimal overhead. This is significant because it substantially reduces the complexity of programming heterogeneous hardware. This in turn leads to reduced energy consumption in data-centers. The technology has been transferred to the US military, has received multiple awards, and has been demonstrated at the Pentagon (https://ece.vt.edu/news/article/popcorn_linux_research_showcased_at_pentagon). The software is under active development by US-gov-contractors (e.g., https://narfindustries.com/). Components of this work have been evaluated by Huawei (contact: Systems Architect) and IBM (contact: Systems Researcher).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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