@misc{wells_pact2007,
title = {On Hiding Multicore Complexity from System Software},
author = {Koushik Chakraborty Philip M. Wells and Gurindar S. Sohi},
note = {Appears in Operating System support for Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures Workshop Program},
year = {2007},
abstract = {Future multicores will be very complex: at the very least,
they may contain statically heterogeneous cores, which are
designed with different engineering trade-offs, and dynami-
cally heterogeneouscores, which have different, and rapidly
changing, execution characteristics. Hardware companies
traditionally expose chips to system software at a very low
level, effectively saying, “Here is what we built, now do
something with it.”
However, there are several advantages to having the chip
itself manage these emerging complexities, while exposing a
more generic interface to software. We do not have all of the
answers for the appropriate role of system software, but we
do suggest that system architects should carefully consider
the benefits of abstraction when designing future systems.},
keywords = {multicore os-scheduling }
}
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