A METHOD FOR THE ONLINE USE OF OFF-LINE DERIVED REMAPPINGS OF ITERATIVE AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION TASKS ONTO A PARTICULAR CLASS OF HETEROGENEOUS PARALLEL PLATFORMS

This study focuses on a particular application domain (iterative autom atic target recognition tasks) and an associated specific class of ded icated heterogeneous parallel hardware platforms. For the computationa l environment considered, a methodology is presented for the on-line o perating system to decide heuristically whether to perform a remapping of the application onto the platform based on information generated f rom input data by the application during execution. If the decision is to remap, the operating system will be able to select a mapping, whic h is appropriate for the given state of the application, from a stored set of mappings that were previously derived with an off-line heurist ic.