The TERAFLUX Project: Exploiting the DataFlow Paradigm in Next Generation Teradevices
Marco Solinas, Rosa M. Badia, François Bodin, Albert Cohen, Paraskevas Evripidou, Paolo Faraboschi, Bernhard Fechner, Guang R. Gao, Arne Garbade, Sylvain Girbal, Daniel Goodman, Behran Khan, Souad Koliaï, Feng Li, Mikel Luján, Laurent Morin, Avi Mendelson, Nacho Navarro, Antoniu Pop, Pedro Trancoso · 2013
Thanks to the improvements in semiconductor technologies, extreme-scale systems such as teradevices (i.e., composed by 1000 billion of transistors) will enable systems with 1000+ general purpose cores per chip, probably by 2020. Three major challenges have been identified: programmability, manageable architecture design, and reliability. TERAFLUX is a Future and Emerging Technology (FET) large-scale project funded by the European Union, which addresses such challenges at once by leveraging the dataflow principles. This paper describes the project and provides an overview of the research carried out by the TERAFLUX consortium.