RAMP: research accelerator for multiple processors - a community vision for a shared experimental parallel HW/SW platform

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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.

@inproceedings{2006rampresearchacceleratorformultipleprocessors,
  title = {RAMP: research accelerator for multiple processors - a community vision for a shared experimental parallel HW/SW platform},
  author = {David A Patterson},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS)},
  year = {2006},
  doi = {10.1109/ispass.2006.1620784},
}