D 3 AS project: a different approach to the manycore challenges

The number of cores integrated onto a single die is expected to climb steadily in the foreseeable future. The main aim of Demand Data Driven Architecture System (D3AS) project is an attempt to provide a new programming model and architecture to allow efficient programming of highly parallel systems based on thousands of simple, thin cores. After a detailed description of the proposed prototype, some experimental results, obtained by a demonstrator, are discussed. Results show that the D3AS approach is feasible and promising.