Operating System Mechanisms For Many-Core Systems (PICASO)

• funded by: Securboration, Inc.
• funding level: $33,333
• duration: 04/03/2012 - 10/2/2012

The objective of this work is to design and evaluate novel system and program abstractions for combined performance and scalability paving the path into a future of operating system supporting a massive number of cores on a single chip.

Publications:

• "Low Contention Mapping of Real-Time Tasks onto a TilePro 64 Core Processor", by C. Zimmer and F. Mueller in Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, Apr 2012, pages 131-140.
• "Fault Resilient Real-Time Design for NoC Architectures", by C. Zimmer and F. Mueller International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Apr 2012, pages 75-84.
• NoCMsg: Scalable NoC-Based Message Passing by Christopher Zimmer, Frank Mueller in International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, May 2014.

• "Bringing Efficiency and Predictability to Massive Multi-core NoC Architectures" by C. Zimmer, Ph.D. Thesis, North Carolina State University, Dec 2012 (last known position: Cisco, NC)