A Position on Transparent Reconfigurable Systems

With the ever more pressing issue arising from the phenomenon known as the death or slowdown of Moore’s Law and the Dennard Scaling, compute performance has not been increasing at the rate the industry had been accustomed to over the decades [7]. This has prompted a shift from mostly homogeneous compute architectures to increasingly heterogeneous ones [1]. As these systems become increasingly complex, manual tuning and management of these heterogeneous resources becomes unfeasible. In this paper, we propose a runtime mechanism for automatic reconfigurable resource management that will enable a hypothetical flow for combined hardware and software compilation.