SLAAC: a distributed architecture for adaptive computing

Software tools, including debuggers and performance monitors, have been developed independently for specific adaptive systems. Consequently, a user has to learn a new set of tools when switching to a different architecture. Although at the level closest to the hardware the runtime system is necessarily different for specific systems, much of the runtime system software functionality is common across systems and could be standardized. In this paper, we propose the SLAAC (system level applications of adaptive computing) reference architecture to help address some of the issues in the adaptive computing community.