Modelling a Multi-Core Media Processor Using JCSP

Kosek, Anna; Kerridge, Jon; Syed, Aly

Abstract

Manufacturers are creating multi-core processors to solve specialized problems. This kind of processor can process tasks faster by running them in parallel. This paper explores the usability of the Communicating Sequential Processes model to create a simulation of a multi-core processor aimed at media processing in hand-held mobile devices. Every core in such systems can have different capabilities and can generate different amounts of heat depending on the task being performed. Heat generated reduces the performance of the core. We have used mobile processes in JCSP to implement the allocation of tasks to cores based upon the work the core has done previously.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 31st Communicating Process Architectures Conference, CPA 2008
• Start Date: Sep 7, 2008
• End Date: Sep 10, 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Deposit Date: Jul 19, 2019
• Publisher: IOS Press
• Pages: 431-443
• Series Title: Concurrent Systems Engineering Series
• Series Number: 66
• Series ISSN: 1383-7575
• Book Title: Communicating Process Architectures 2008
• ISBN: 978-1-58603-907-3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-907-3-431
• Keywords: multicore processors; parallelism; media processing; mobile processes
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1978518