Training Workshop On The KALRAY's MPPA
14, Jun, 2013
On May 6th-7th, took place in CISTER a training workshop on the KALRAY's MPPA (Multi-Purpose Processor Array) platform. This platform is a challenging many-core system, which provides a MPPA-256 processor (16 clusters of 16 work cores, together with a few more for platform management), and development environment both for posix and dataflow programming environments.
CISTER recently acquired some of these platforms, which will serve as advanced testbeds for the ongoing multi/many-core research activities, such as timing analysis, real-time scheduling of parallel tasks, operating systems and programming models.
This 2-day training in the platform was provided by 3 engineers from Kalray, covering the platforms architecture, and its development environments. CISTER is analyzing with Kalray the possibility to jointly tackle some of the identified challenges.
More information available at http://www.kalray.eu/products/mppa-developer/
