TERAFLUX: Exploiting Dataflow Parallelism in Teradevices

The TERAFLUX project is a Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Large-Scale Project funded by the European Union. TERAFLUX is at the forefront of major research challenges such as programmability, manageable architecture design, reliability of many-core or 1000+ core chips. In the near future, new computing systems will consist of a huge number of transistors - probably 1 Tera or 1000 billions by 2020: we name such systems as Teradevices. In this project, the aim is to solve the three challenges at once by using the dataflow principles wherever they are applicable or make sense in the general economy of the system. An Instruction Set Extension (ISE) for the x86-64 is illustrated. This ISE supports the dataflow execution of threads