Resource Allocation By Intelligent Task Distribution Protocol

To address the Navy’s need for resource-centric, application-characteristic-aware, power-aware, standards-compliant, manycore processor management methods, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Resource Allocation By Intelligent Task Distribution (RABID) protocol. This proposed protocol is based on bytecode resource extraction, resource optimization routines, pull-based job distribution, and just-in-time compilation techniques. The innovation in system architecture successfully combines standardized bytecode and just-in-time compilers with bytecode-scanning to extract task resource requirements. A novel resource assignment strategy optimally selects resources for task execution, and a unique load-balancing routine distributes tasks to processing elements while simultaneously minimizing overhead. Combined, these components provide a complete manycore processor management protocol that is natively compliant with existing standards (the core components are already standards-compliant, while added components do not alter compiled codes), is transparent to the programmer and end-user, and directly supports power-level optimizations, including dynamic clock and voltage scaling, core power cycling, and other power management strategies, thus directly meeting the PEO IWS 1.0 need. In Phase I, POC will demonstrate the feasibility of RABID by developing a pre-alpha version for evaluation. In Phase II, POC will expand the optimization capabilities of RABID, optimize the core codes, and design an embedded version of the system.