Research Projects
Maven (Malleable Array of Vector-thread ENgines)
Christopher Batten1, Yunsup Lee, Rimas Avizienis, Christopher Celio, Alex Bishara2, Richard Xia3 and Krste Asanović
In earlier work at MIT, Professor Asanovic's team developed the Scale vector-thread architecture and processor prototype, which combines data-level and thread-level parallel execution models in a single unified architecture. Maven is the second-generation vector-thread architecture, designed to scale up to hundreds of execution lanes, and with the goal of providing very high throughput at low energy for a wide variety of parallel applications. Maven is based on a new compact lane design, which is replicated to yield a "sea of lanes" execution substrate. At run-time, lanes are ganged together to form variable-sized vector-thread engines, sized to match application needs.
1MIT
2UCB
3UCB
More information: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/projects/arch_p.html