Georgia Tech PCA Project

Georgia Tech PCA Project:
Facilitating Middleware for Polymorphous Computing Architecture

The Morphware Forum is a joint activity of the participants in the Polymorphous Computing Architectures (PCA) program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as well as other interested developers of embedded computing hardware, software, and application technology. The purpose of the Morphware Forum is to define an open, portable software environment for the development of high performance applications on PCA platforms.

Quad Chart Project Summary

The major activity of Georgia Tech's project under the PCA program is the organization and leadership of the Morphware Forum. The major products are the documents, software, and standards that will be developed by the Morphware Forum. Information on these activities and products are available at the Morphware Forum web site.

The co-principal investigators of this project are Dr. Mark A. Richards of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Mr. Dan Campbell of the Georgia Tech Research Institute's Radar Systems Division.

The U.S. Navy SPAWAR Systems Center - San Diego and Vanderbilt University's Institute for Software Integrated Systems are also members of the Georgia Tech PCA team.

PCA 101

Morphware Stable Interface Documents

Briefings and Posters

Overview Briefing for the Morphware Stable Interface Facilitation Project
by Mark Richards
Presentation to DARPA PCA PI Meeting 17 March 2004
[poster to accompany briefing]

The Morphware Stable Interface: A Software Framework for Polymorphous Computing Architectures by D. Campbell, D. Cottel, R. Judd, K. MacKenzie, M. Richards
Seventh Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing, 23-25 September, 2003. MIT-Lincoln Lab

Emerging Software Frameworks for Polymorphous Computing Architectures (poster)[pdf]
D. P. Campbell, K. A. MacKenzie, and M. A. Richards
Proceedings 17th Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2002), November 2002.

Papers

The Morphware Stable Interface: A Software Frameworks for PCAs
M. A. Richards, D. P. Campbell, and K. M. Mackenzie
Proceedings GOMACTech-03, March-April 2003
[Presentation to accompany paper]

Facilitating Middleware for Polymorphous Computing Architectures
by Mark Richards, Dan Campbell, Kenneth MacKenzie, Randy Judd, and Dennis Cottell
Interim Technical Report, Georgia Tech, February 2003

Related Links

PCA Program Projects

Morphware, Standardization, and Reference Platforms

Mission Requirements Analysis & Application Requirements Decomposition

Polymorphous Computing Research & Proof-of-Concept

Focused Technology Development

Run-Time Environment and Design Application for Polymorphous Technology (LMCO Adv. Technology Labs)
Stream Co-Processing Engine (SCE) – "Morphware" for the Future (Mercury Computer Systems)
Reactive Architecture and Photonics (USC/ISI)
PCA Data Communications & Network Processing Kernel, Morphware Architecture/SW development, and SystemC Prototyping (Protean)

Previous PCA Program Projects

M3T: Morphable Multithreaded Memory Tiles (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
A Multi-Time Scale Morphable Software Milieu for PCA-Composable Scalable Processing Systems (MPI Software Technology)
Security/Trust as a Polymorphic Computing Constraint (Northrop-Grumman

Embedded Computing Links

Selected DARPA Embedded & Autonomous Systems Programs

Related Software Projects

The material on this website is based upon work supported by DARPA
under Contract No. N66001-01-C-8043

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Last Updated - July 19, 2004