It's Time to Think About an Operating System for Near Data Processing Architectures

Antonio Barbalace; Anthony Iliopoulos; Holm Rauchfuss; Goetz Brasche

doi:10.1145/3102980.3102990

It's Time to Think About an Operating System for Near Data Processing Architectures

Antonio Barbalace, Anthony Iliopoulos, Holm Rauchfuss, Goetz Brasche

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Abstract

Near Data Processing, in form of processing in-memory (PIM) and in-storage computing (ISC) was a very active area of research in computer architectures in the ’90s. About 3 years ago Balasubramonian et al. presented the motivations behind the resurgence of interest in Near Data Processing (NDP) backed up by 10 reasons why it will be real this time, such as maturity of the underlying technologies, and user demands that cannot be satisfied by current architectures. With an increasing number of research papers on NDP, in-memory and in-storage research prototypes, special-purpose architectures, and more important COTS in-storage NDP, NDP devices are making their way into the computer market. Samsung, as well as other storage media vendors, are now selling SSD devices whose controller integrates general-purpose processor cores, such as ARM, that are user-programmable. However, for an application to take advantage of the NDP resources, it has to leverage a device-specific programming model and/or framework that enables the executable code to beo offloaded at runtime on the SSD processing units.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	56-61
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-5068-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3102980.3102990
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2017
Event	16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Whistler, Canada Duration: 7 Oct 2017 → 10 Oct 2019 http://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2017/index.html

Workshop

Workshop	16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
Abbreviated title	HotOS 2017
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Whistler
Period	7/10/17 → 10/10/19
Internet address	http://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2017/index.html

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Hardware
Emerging architectures
Soware and its engineering
Operating systems
Tightly coupled architectures
Computer systems organization
Heterogeneous (hybrid) systems
Near data processing
multiple kernels OS
decentralized resource control
single protection domain

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Antonio Barbalace
- antonio.barbalaceed.acuk
- School of Informatics - Senior Lecturer in Operating Systems
- Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
- Computer Systems
Person: Academic: Research Active

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Barbalace, A, Iliopoulos, A, Rauchfuss, H & Brasche, G 2017, It's Time to Think About an Operating System for Near Data Processing Architectures. in Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, pp. 56-61, 16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, 7/10/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3102980.3102990

It's Time to Think About an Operating System for Near Data Processing Architectures. / Barbalace, Antonio; Iliopoulos, Anthony; Rauchfuss, Holm et al.
Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. p. 56-61.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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