Proceedings of the 6th Many-core Applications Research Community

Abstract — This paper details our current research project on the efficient utilization of many-core systems by utilizing applica-tions based on a novel kind of software pipelines. These pipelines form malleable applications that can change their degree of par-allelism at runtime. This allows not only for a well-balanced load, but also for an efficient distribution of the cores to the individual, competing applications to maximize the overall system perfor-mance. We are convinced that malleable software pipelines will significantly outperform existing mapping and scheduling solu-tions. Index Terms — Parallel architectures, multicore processing, pipeline processing, multiprocessing systems