Spectrum of run-time management for modern and next generation multi/many-core systems

Run-time management of multi/many-core systems is becoming extremely challenging due to several factors, e.g. increasing demand to execute concurrent applications, inefficient exploitation of heterogeneous cores, changing workload variations over time, changing run-time scenarios and desire for optimization of several metrics such as performance, energy consumption and reliability. For next generation multi/many-core systems, the challenges will further increase mainly due to higher number of cores and increased heterogeneity. To address one or more of these challenges, run-time management approaches are being extensively developed. This tutorial presents a spectrum of run-time management approaches investigated over the last couple of years. Depending upon the target problems, the designers can employ these methodologies to achieve efficiency in multi/many-core systems in terms of performance, energy consumption and reliability