Concurrent Software Engineering on Multicore Systems Supported by Statistical Performance Analysis

This paper introduces the ADVANCE approach to engineering concurrent systems using a new component-based approach.A cost-directed tool-chain maps concurrent programs ontoemerging hardware architectures, where costs are expressed in terms ofprogrammer annotations for the throughput, latency and jitter of components. These are then synthesized using advanced statistical analysis techniques to give overall cost information about the concurrent system that can be exploitedby the hardware virtualisation layer to drive mapping and scheduling decisions.Initial performance results are presented, showing that the ADVANCE technologiesprovide a promising approach to dealing with near- and future-term complexitiesof programming heterogeneous multi-core systems