Design and study of a massively multi threaded shared memory architecture

Niveau: Supérieur, MasterDesign and study of a massively multi threaded shared memory architecture Internship report Research master's degree in computer science Universite de Rennes 1 Author : Christophe Riolo Supervised by Dominique Lavenier Symbiose team, IRISA June 2nd, 2011 Abstract Most biocomputing problems require a high processing power with high memory needs while showing massive paral- lelism opportunities. Unfortunately, although advances are made in software parallelism, current architectures do not provide a transparent way to use this parallelism at its full potential. We thus started to design an massively parallel megathreaded architecture that would match biocomputing algorithms requirements both in terms of processing power and memory. du m as -0 06 36 79 5, v er sio n 1 - 2 8 O ct 2 01 1 multiple cards most biocomputing problems pseudo-code protocol transmission time all members process all