Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

4-2002

Abstract

The fundamental modeling differences between hardware and software modeling can be thought of as reasoning about connectedness vs. reasoning about interleaved (shared) access to resources. A natural design hierarchy for physical systems is component-based because of the existence of a consistent basis for interconnect between design levels. However, performance modeling and design of concurrent, programmable systems require new ways of thinking about what it means to abstract detail, add detail and partition a model of software executing on hardware. We motivate frequency interleaving (FI) as a common simulation foundation for these systems because it resolves flow and partitioning with software on hardware layering. Thus, FI provides a basis for hardware and software designs that do not simply co-execute together in fixed system views or later mappings but to truly be co-designed together from highlevel conceptualizations to low-level implementable models. We include an example of a network switch within a clientserver application.

Keywords

Hardware, Concurrent computing, Software performance, Timing, Switches, Physics computing, Wire, Encapsulation, Computer networks, Frequency

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Intelligent Systems and Optimization

Publication

Proceedings 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 2002 April 15-19

First Page

177

Last Page

184

ISBN

9780769515731

Identifier

10.1109/IPDPS.2002.1016581

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2002.1016581

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