Architecture of computing systems -- ARCS 2018 : 31st International Conference, Braunschweig, Germany, April 9-12, 2018, Proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2018, held in Braunschweig, Germany, in April 2018. The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. ARCS has always been a conference attracting leading-edge research outcomes in Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, including a wide spectrum of topics ranging from embedded and real-time systems all the way to large-scale and parallel systems. Front Matter ....Pages I-XV Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Trade-Off Between Performance, Fault Tolerance and Energy Consumption in Duplication-Based Taskgraph Scheduling (Patrick Eitschberger, Simon Holmbacka, Jörg Keller)....Pages 3-17 Lipsi: Probably the Smallest Processor in the World (Martin Schoeberl)....Pages 18-30 Superlinear Scalability in Parallel Computing and Multi-robot Systems: Shared Resources, Collaboration, and Network Topology (Heiko Hamann)....Pages 31-42 Front Matter ....Pages 43-43 Closed Loop Controller for Multicore Real-Time Systems (Johannes Freitag, Sascha Uhrig)....Pages 45-56 Optimization of the GNU OpenMP Synchronization Barrier in MPSoC (Maxime France-Pillois, Jérôme Martin, Frédéric Rousseau)....Pages 57-69 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 Ampehre: An Open Source Measurement Framework for Heterogeneous Compute Nodes (Achim Lösch, Alex Wiens, Marco Platzner)....Pages 73-84 A Hybrid Approach for Runtime Analysis Using a Cycle and Instruction Accurate Model (Sebastian Rachuj, Christian Herglotz, Marc Reichenbach, André Kaup, Dietmar Fey)....Pages 85-96 Front Matter ....Pages 97-97 A CAM-Free Exascalable HPC Router for Low-Energy Communications (Caroline Concatto, Jose A. Pascual, Javier Navaridas, Joshua Lant, Andrew Attwood, Mikel Lujan et al.)....Pages 99-111 Lightweight Hardware Synchronization for Avoiding Buffer Overflows in Network-on-Chips (Martin Frieb, Alexander Stegmeier, Jörg Mische, Theo Ungerer)....Pages 112-126 Network Optimization for Safety-Critical Systems Using Software-Defined Networks (Cora Perner)....Pages 127-138 CaCAO: Complex and Compositional Atomic Operations for NoC-Based Manycore Platforms (Sven Rheindt, Andreas Schenk, Akshay Srivatsa, Thomas Wild, Andreas Herkersdorf)....Pages 139-152 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 Redundant Execution on Heterogeneous Multi-cores Utilizing Transactional Memory (Rico Amslinger, Sebastian Weis, Christian Piatka, Florian Haas, Theo Ungerer)....Pages 155-167 Improving the Performance of STT-MRAM LLC Through Enhanced Cache Replacement Policy (Pierre-Yves Péneau, David Novo, Florent Bruguier, Lionel Torres, Gilles Sassatelli, Abdoulaye Gamatié)....Pages 168-180 On Automated Feedback-Driven Data Placement in Multi-tiered Memory (T. Chad Effler, Adam P. Howard, Tong Zhou, Michael R. Jantz, Kshitij A. Doshi, Prasad A. Kulkarni)....Pages 181-194 Operational Characterization of Weak Memory Consistency Models (M. Senftleben, K. Schneider)....Pages 195-208 Front Matter ....Pages 209-209 A Tightly Coupled Heterogeneous Core with Highly Efficient Low-Power Mode (Yasumasa Chidai, Kojiro Izuoka, Ryota Shioya, Masahiro Goshima, Hideki Ando)....Pages 211-224 Performance-Energy Trade-off in CMPs with Per-Core DVFS (Solomon Abera, M. Balakrishnan, Anshul Kumar)....Pages 225-238 Towards Fine-Grained DVFS in Embedded Multi-core CPUs (Giuseppe Massari, Federico Terraneo, Michele Zanella, Davide Zoni)....Pages 239-251 Front Matter ....Pages 253-253 Evaluating Auto-adaptation Methods for Fine-Grained Adaptable Processors (Joost Hoozemans, Jeroen van Straten, Zaid Al-Ars, Stephan Wong)....Pages 255-268 HLS Enabled Partially Reconfigurable Module Implementation (Nicolae Bogdan Grigore, Charalampos Kritikakis, Dirk Koch)....Pages 269-282 Hardware Acceleration in Genode OS Using Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration (Alexander Dörflinger, Mark Albers, Björn Fiethe, Harald Michalik)....Pages 283-293 Front Matter ....Pages 295-295 Do Iterative Solvers Benefit from Approximate Computing? An Evaluation Study Considering Orthogonal Approximation Methods (Michael Bromberger, Markus Hoffmann, Robin Rehrmann)....Pages 297-310 A Flexible FPGA-Based Inference Architecture for Pruned Deep Neural Networks (Thorbjörn Posewsky, Daniel Ziener)....Pages 311-323 Back Matter ....Pages 325-326