My Thesis

 

My thesis is that a stream mechanism may be used to ameliorate the problems associated with the parallel processing of media. Streams provide a scalable means of obtaining parallelism, support specialized processors, and allow the indeterminate latency of memory accesses to be ignored. In order to fully exploit the capabilities of streams, a programming model utilizing them is also being developed [31].

The goals of the MagicEight programming model are:

• to allow efficient use of a set of heterogenous processors, interconnected through channels of varying capacity
• to support specialized (esp. non-Von Neuman) processors
• to allow a program to efficiently execute on systems with varying numbers of processing nodes, within a range of 1 to approx. 200, in a programmer transparent manner

• The MagicEight Programming Model
• MagicEight Program Elements
• Stream Mechanism
• Eduction