RAMP: Research accelerator for multiple processors

John Wawrzynek

David Patterson UC Berkeley

Mark Oskin

Shih-Lien Lu

Christoforos Kozyrakis

James C Hoe

Derek Chiou

Krste Asanovic

Technical Report, 2007


Abstract

The RAMP project’s goal is to enable the intensive, multidisciplinary innovation that the computing industry will need to tackle the problems of parallel processing. RAMP itself is an open-source, community-developed, FPGA-based emulator of parallel architectures. its design framework lets a large, collaborative community develop and contribute reusable, composable design modules. three complete designs - for transactional memory, distributed systems, and distributed-shared memory - demonstrate the platform’s potential.