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Mark MitchellMentor Graphics

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Landfills,iPhones,

and the Web

And HPEC Software….

Landfills

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MITRE AFRLMIT Lincoln Laboratory

NSSNAEGIS

Rivet Joint

Standard Missile

PredatorGlobal Hawk

U-2

JSTARS MSAT-Air

P-3/APS-137

F-16

MK-48 Torpedo

Issues with Current HPEC Development Inadequacy of Software Practices & Standards

Today – Embedded Software Is: • Not portable• Not scalable • Difficult to develop• Expensive to maintain

Today – Embedded Software Is: • Not portable• Not scalable • Difficult to develop• Expensive to maintain

System Development/Acquisition Stages4 Years 4 Years 4 Years

Program MilestonesSystem Tech. Development

System Field DemonstrationEngineering/ manufacturing DevelopmentInsertion to Military Asset

Signal Processor Evolution 1st gen. 2nd gen. 3rd gen. 4th gen. 5th gen. 6th gen.

• High Performance Embedded Computing pervasive through DoD applications– Airborne Radar Insertion program

85% software rewrite for each hardware platform

– Missile common processor Processor board costs < $100k Software development costs > $100M

– Torpedo upgrade Two software re-writes required after changes in hardware design

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Quantitative Goals & Impact

Performance (1.5x)

Por

tabi

lity

(3x)

Productivity (3x)

HPECSoftwareInitiative

Demonstrate

Develop

Pro

toty

pe

Object O

riented

Ope

n S

tand

ards

Interoperable & Scalable

Portability: reduction in lines-of-code to

change port/scale to new

system

Productivity: reduction in overall lines-of-

code

Performance: computation and

communication benchmarks

Program Goals• Develop and integrate software

technologies for embedded parallel systems to address portability, productivity, and performance

• Engage acquisition community to promote technology insertion

• Deliver quantifiable benefits

Program Goals• Develop and integrate software

technologies for embedded parallel systems to address portability, productivity, and performance

• Engage acquisition community to promote technology insertion

• Deliver quantifiable benefits

The Three P’s

The Three R’s – Nice Version

Reduce

ReuseRecycle

Less Code

Shared Code

RepurposedCode

HPEC Software

Apps

Radar

SDR

Video

BLAS

LAPACK

FFTW

VSIPLVSIPL++

SAL

Math APIs

Frameworks

Programming With Frameworks

Web Server

from http.server import

HTTPServer,

BaseHTTPRequestHandler

httpd = HTTPServer(

(“localhost”, “8080”),

BaseHTTPRequestHandler

)

httpd.serve_forever()

L-Band Radar

?

HPEC Software

Apps

Radar

SDR

Video

BLAS

LAPACK

FFTW

VSIPLVSIPL++

Matlab

Apps

SDR

Radar

Video

BLAS

LAPACK

FFTW

VSIPLVSIPL++

Matlab

Was

te-O

-Met

er™

Math APIs

Frameworks

Reusable

Low-Grade Waste

SuperfundSite

HPEC Software Landfill

Three R’s – Nasty Version

iPhones

… and Android Phones

… and lots of other stuff.

What To Do All Of These Have in Common?

UNIX!

UNIX History

UNIX API: Common Vocabulary

Functionality System Calls

I/O open, read, write, close

Memory sbrk, mmap

Processes fork, exec, signal, kill, wait

Communication pipe, socket, mkfifo

API at the Right Level of Abstraction

The Web

Cheaper, Better

Software

Machine Independence

Content vs. Presentation

Open Standards

Open Source

Mass Adoption

Web Success HTMLSOAP

ApacheWebKit

HTML /CSS

X86 / SPARCWindows / OS X

Everyone, Everywhere

Inspiration for HPEC Software

Cheaper, Better

Software

Machine Independence

Content vs. Presentation

Open Standards

Open Source

Mass Adoption

HPEC VSIPL++MPI

FrameworksNeeded!

Algorithms /Data Layout

ARM / X86 / CUDA / FPGA

Medical, Networking,

Etc.

Thank You!