Accelerating sequential programs using FastFlow and self-offloading [article]

Marco Aldinucci, Marco Danelutto, Peter Kilpatrick, Massimiliano Meneghin, Massimo Torquati
2010 arXiv   pre-print
FastFlow is a programming environment specifically targeting cache-coherent shared-memory multi-cores. FastFlow is implemented as a stack of C++ template libraries built on top of lock-free (fence-free) synchronization mechanisms. In this paper we present a further evolution of FastFlow enabling programmers to offload part of their workload on a dynamically created software accelerator running on unused CPUs. The offloaded function can be easily derived from pre-existing sequential code. We
more » ... asize in particular the effective trade-off between human productivity and execution efficiency of the approach.
arXiv:1002.4668v1 fatcat:4j4yjef6jncpng5tuuewmkcukq