XPDL: Extensible Platform Description Language to Support Energy Modeling and Optimization
Paper in proceeding, 2015

We present XPDL, a modular, extensible platform description language for heterogeneous multicore systems and clusters. XPDL specifications provide platform metadata about hardware and installed system software that are relevant for the adaptive static and dynamic optimization of application programs and system settings for improved performance and energy efficiency. XPDL is based on XML and uses hyperlinks to create distributed libraries of platform metadata specifications. We also provide first components of a retarget able tool chain that browses and processes XPDL specifications, and generates driver code for micro benchmarking to bootstrap empirical performance and energy models at deployment time. A C++ based API enables convenient introspection of platform models, even at run-time, which allows for adaptive dynamic program optimizations such as tuned selection of implementation variants.

Heterogeneous multicore system

Platform description language

Architecture description language

Computer architecture

System modeling language

Energy optimization toolchain

Author

C. Kessler

Linköping University

L. Li

Linköping University

Aras Atalar

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Networks and Systems (Chalmers)

Alin Dobre

Movidius Ltd

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops

1530-2016 (ISSN)

Vol. 2015-January 51-60
978-1-4673-7589-4 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Computer Science

DOI

10.1109/ICPPW.2015.17

ISBN

978-1-4673-7589-4

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