一种面向分布式寄存器文件的VLIW调度新策略

新一代面向密集计算的高性能处理器普遍采用分布式寄存器文件来支撑ALU阵列,并通过VLIW开发指令级并行.面向分布式寄存器文件的编译成为新兴的研究热点,在斯坦福大学的kernelC编译器ISCD中最早提出了面向分布式寄存器的VLIW调度问题,在该领域处于领先水平,但是没有解决重负载下的分布式寄存器分配问题,使应用编程受到极大限制.在其基础上提出了一种新的VLIW调度策略,实验结果表明能够很好地解决重负载下的分布式寄存器分配问题.     

基于SIMD处理器的全定制多粒度矩阵寄存器文件

在SIMD处理器上映射矩阵运算时会带来大量的数据重排操作从而降低系统性能。本文提出定制化的多粒度矩阵寄存器文件(MMRF)以消除数据重排操作。MMRF支持多粒度的并行行访问和列访问,从而提升矩阵运算的性能。MMRF可以被动态配置为不同的并行访问模式,在不同模式下一个或多个子矩阵可以被并行处理。实验结果显示,同传统的向量寄存器文件(VRF)和矩阵寄存器文件(MRF)相比,MMRF可分别带来2.21倍和1.6倍的平均性能提升,面积分别增加14.3%和3.7%,功耗分别增加14.6%和2.2%。同TMS320C64x+处理器相比,基于SIMD技术的FT-Matrix处理器在引入MMRF后可以得到5.65倍到7.71倍的性能提升。通过层次化的全定制设计技术,MMRF的面积和关键路径分别减少17.9%和39.1%。     

基于程序特征分析的流处理器VLIW压缩技术与解压实现

代码体积和代码稀疏是VLIW处理器一直存在的问题.通过对一系列典型应用在流处理器上的程序特征进行分析,提出了一种新的VLIW分域压缩技术,剔除各个子域中的空操作,并设计了分布式指令存储器对压缩后的代码进行解压缩执行.实验证明,该技术能够减少MASA流处理器中近39％的片外指令访存,降低约65％的片上指令存储器空间需求;同时使得指令存储器面积和系统面积分别减少了约37％和8.9％.     

一种基于VLIW DSP架构的高性能取指流水线

以超长指令字(VLIW)数字信号处理器(DSP)作为平台,针对现有提高单线程取指流水线效率的方法中存在的弊端,提出了一种高性能的取指流水架构.该架构支持无效取指的检测与作废,从而降低不必要的cacbe访问,减少取指流水停顿周期,该结构还引入专用硬件支持编译调度的循环软流水,有效提高指令并行性,降低代码存储空间,由此释放...     

一种应用于数据通道综合的定向搜索流水调度算法

流水调度是专用数字信号处理器高层综合中一个困难而急待解决的问题。给出了一种定向搜索流水调度算法 ,目标是使全面考虑了运算单元、寄存器和互连的硬件代价最小化。它作为一种利用启发信息的迭代算法 ,一方面克服了确定性算法爬峰能力差、易于陷于局部极值的缺点 ,另一方面启发信息的利用加快了搜索过程。典型设计实例显示算法性能达到或超过了目前流水调度文献报道的最好性能     

实时磁盘调度算法研究

总结分析了现阶段流行的实时磁盘调度算法,针对磁盘的存储特性,在对任务请求的磁盘访问时间精确预估的基础上,提出了一种新的调度算法-DSJIT(diskjustintime).该算法通过对请求文件在磁盘上分布的预分析得出处理请求所需时间的一个精确预估值,然后根据此预估值再对任务队列进行调度调整,它在保证应用程序对磁盘工作实时要求的同时,尽可能地提高磁盘的吞吐量.最后通过模拟试验,验证了算法的有效性.     

Linux内核的进程调度原理及改进算法研究

随着Linux在嵌入式操作系统领域的广泛应用,对Linux实时性能增强的研究也越来越多。通过对Linux进程调度依据和进程调度过程的分析,提出了一种改进的Linux进程调度算法。该算法改造了进程调度队列数据结构,去掉了进程调度选择时的遍历步骤,更改为直接得到待选最高优先级进程,同时,该算法改统一的时间片重新分配策略为分散的时间片重算策略。通过Linux进程调度算法与改进算法的时间复杂度对比分析,改进算法将Linux调度算法O(n)级的时间复杂度降低为O(1)级时间复杂度,因此能够更好地满足实时操作系统时间可测度以及低延迟等要求。     

ET:一种能耗有效的高性能嵌入式处理器

随着标准和算法的不断演进,高端嵌入式应用对性能和能耗提出了越来越高的要求.然而,能耗问题成为将VLSI潜力转换为实际应用需求的最大挑战,基于此,提出ET( Embedded Tera-scale Computing)处理器设计.ET以众多轻量级处理器(称为小核)来搭建目标处理器,每个小核都是一个基于显式数据和指令管理的...     

Zodiac算法新的不可能差分攻击

重新评估了Zodiac算法抵抗不可能差分攻击的能力。通过分析Zodiac算法的线性层,给出了Zodiac算法两条新的14轮不可能差分。利用新的不可能差分,结合Early-Abort技术对完整16轮的Zodiac算法进行了不可能差分攻击。攻击过程中一共恢复6个字节的密钥,其时间复杂度只有232.6次加密,数据复杂度约为285.6个明文,该攻击结果与已有最好的结果相比,时间复杂度降低了一个因子233。结果表明由于Zodiac算法线性层的扩散性差,使得该算法对不可能差分分析是不免疫的。     

基于统计性QoS保证的数据包延时界调度算法

讨论了调度算法的性能指标,对目前基于业务流的调度算法的技术特点与性能优劣进行了分析和比较.重点研究了基于时延和丢包率的算法,并提出了一种基于数据包延时界(PDB)排列的调度策略,与WFQ及传统EDF算法进行了比较,证明业务端到端超时概率随网络带宽利用率的变化性能优于传统EDF算法.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities

ABSTRACT

What was the scope of the Bosnian jihadi participation in the war in Syria? Did the Bosnian volunteers tend to join one particular faction? Why did the Bosnian youngsters decide to join the holy war in the Levant? Was this an organized and hierarchical process or was this a grassroots movement? Last, were all the Salafis in Bosnia supportive of this dynamic or did this process cause internal frictions? These are some of the questions that this research will try to answer.     

Country survey XVI the defence sector in the economy of a declining superpower: Soviet Union and Russia, 1965-2001

The Soviet Union was able to develop a large military-industrial complex and become the world's second superpower despite deficiencies in its centrally planned economy because defence was given high priority status and special planning, rationing and administrative mechanisms were used to attain national security objectives. However, in the period 1976-85 the effectiveness of priority protection diminished and defence institutions experienced more of the problems typical of the shortage economic system. The heavy defence burden also created growing difficulties for the civilian economy. The attempts by the Gorbachev government to reform the defence sector and improve defence-economic relationships during perestroika (1985-91) uniformly failed. For most of the transition period, the Russian military-industrial complex has been adversely affected by its low priority status, cuts in defence spending, instability of the hybrid politico-economic system, and negative growth of the economy. The armed forces and defence industry have been reduced in size and their outputs of military services and equipment have fallen to low levels. Nevertheless, the Russian armed forces still have over one million troops, significant stocks of sophisticated conventional weapons, and a large nuclear arsenal. The government of President Putin has raised the priority of the defence sector, increased real defence spending, and adopted ambitious plans to revive Russian military power. It is likely, though, that tight resource constraints will hamper efforts to reform the armed forces and to upgrade weapons. By 2010 Russia will be an important, but not dominant, military power in Eurasia.     

Traffickers,terrorists, and a ‘new security challenge’: Russian counternarcotics strategy and the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade

The collapse of the Soviet Union precipitated the massive expansion of drug use and trade in Russia. The country now has one of the largest populations of injecting drug users in the world and has become the largest single-country market for Afghan heroin. In 2003 the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade was created to coordinate a comprehensive counternarcotics strategy appropriate to the scale of this threat. The service continues to face a number of challenges in its early stages of development. However, it has made considerable advances in improving responses to large-scale organised crime and in building international cooperation.