Enabling the use of embedded and mobile technologies for high-performance computing

• Autores: Nikola Rajovic
• Directores de la Tesis: Alejandro Ramírez Bellido (dir. tes.), Eduard Ayguadé Parra (tut. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2017
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Milo Tomašević (presid.), Miquel Moretó Planas (secret.), Estela Suárez García (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Ciencias tecnológicas
    • Tecnología de los ordenadores
      • Arquitectura de ordenadores
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• Resumen

  • In the late 1990s, powerful economic forces led to the adoption of commodity desktop processors in High-Performance Computing(HPC).

    This transformation has been so effective that the November 2016 TOP500 list is still dominated by x86 architecture.

    In 2016, the largest commodity market in computing is not PCs or servers, but mobile computing, comprising smartphones andtablets, most of which are built with ARM-based Systems on Chips (SoC).

    This suggests that once mobile SoCs deliver sufficient performance, mobile SoCs can help reduce the cost of HPC.

    This thesis addresses this question in detail.We analyze the trend in mobile SoC performance, comparing it with the similar trend in the 1990s.

    Through development of real system prototypes and their performance analysis we assess the feasibility of building an HPCsystem based on mobile SoCs.

    Through simulation of the future mobile SoC, we identify the missing features and suggest improvements that would enable theuse of future mobile SoCs in HPC environment.

    Thus, we present design guidelines for future generations mobile SoCs, and HPC systems built around them, enabling the newclass of cheap supercomputers.