ALMA (Greek for ‘leap’) is an acronym for ALgorithm parallelization for Multicore Architectures. Driven by the technology restrictions in chip design, the end of Moore’s law and the quest for increasing computing performance, ALMA is a fundamental step forward in the necessary introduction of novel computing paradigms and methodologies.
The ALMA tool-chain will implement parallelization and optimization algorithms for a whole class of multi-cores. ALMA intends to show how various embedded reconfigurable multi-cores from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Recore Systems can be efficiently programmed using the same tool-chain and the same application code.