An Improved Design for UMP (Ubiquitous Multi-processor) System

Abstract

Recently, pervasive computing has become a very hot research field. Future Creation Lab., Olympus Corp. and the University of Aizu are working on this future technology to facilitate people¿s everyday life. The system we have proposed is named UMP-Percomp, a ubiquitous multiprocessor-based pipeline processing architecture to support high performance pervasive application development. Until now, we have implemented a prototype system to evaluate the performance of the architecture. However, the structure of the prototype system has some limitations: lack of scalability, inefficient pipeline algorithm, and do not do anything if there is lack of available PEs. So we modify the design to change these disadvantages. We add a UDP server to each component to support scalability and component substitution. We design a parallel algorithm to maximum the usage of PEs, and we also consider the situation of lacking suitable PEs. Finally, we do an experiment on the new system to compare with the old system.