CoreGenesis: Erasing core boundaries for robust and configurable performance

Single-thread performance, power efficiency and reliability are critical design challenges of future multicore systems. Although point solutions have been proposed to address these issues, a more fundamental change to the fabric of multicore systems is necessary to seamlessly combat these challenges. Towards this end, this paper proposes CoreGenesis, a dynamically adaptive multiprocessor fabric that blurs out individual core boundaries, and encourages resource sharing across cores for performance, reliability and customized processing. Further, as a manifestation of this vision, the paper provides details of a unified performance-reliability solution that can assemble variable-width processors from a network of (potentially broken) pipeline stage-level resources.