Application of Ant Colony Optimization to Data Distribution in Processor in Memory Systems

Increasing demands in the eld of high performance scienti c computing have lead to supercomputers of increasing sophistication and complexity. Utilizing a number of techniques to extract parallelism and maximize performance, recent trends in supercomputing have come at the expense of programmability. The knowledge and eort required to perform optimization on a modern supercomputer often detracts from the chief goals of the user. The future generations of supercomputers will have to provide not only high performance, but also high programmability and productivity. One mechanism to achieve this is the use of automatic introspection mechanisms. We plan to explore how ant-colony type optimizations can be used to perform low-overhead introspection and optimization in a simulated high performance computing environment.