Event‐based high throughput computing: A series of case studies on a massively parallel softcore machine

Abstract This paper introduces an event‐based computing paradigm, where workers only perform computation in response to external stimuli (events). This approach is best employed on hardware with many thousands of smaller compute cores with a fast, low‐latency interconnect, as opposed to traditional...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mark Vousden, Jordan Morris, Graeme McLachlan Bragg, Jonathan Beaumont, Ashur Rafiev, Wayne Luk, David Thomas, Andrew Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi-IET 2023-01-01
Series:IET Computers & Digital Techniques
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/cdt2.12051
Description
Summary:Abstract This paper introduces an event‐based computing paradigm, where workers only perform computation in response to external stimuli (events). This approach is best employed on hardware with many thousands of smaller compute cores with a fast, low‐latency interconnect, as opposed to traditional computers with fewer and faster cores. Event‐based computing is timely because it provides an alternative to traditional big computing, which suffers from immense infrastructural and power costs. This paper presents four case study applications, where an event‐based computing approach finds solutions to orders of magnitude more quickly than the equivalent traditional big compute approach, including problems in computational chemistry and condensed matter physics.
ISSN:1751-8601
1751-861X