I have a task which consists of 3 concurrent self-defined (recursive to each other) processes. I need somehow to make it execute on computer, but any attempt to convert a requirement to program code with just my brain fails since first iteration produces 3^3 entities with 27^2 cross-relations, but it needs to implement at least several iterations to try if program even works at all.
So I decided to give up on trying to understand the whole system and formalized the problem and now want to map it to hardware to generate an algorithm and run. Language doesn't matter (maybe even directly to machine/assembly one?).
I never did anything like that before, so all topics I searched through like algorithm synthesis, software and hardware co-design, etc. mention hardware model as the second half (in addition to problem model) of solution generation, but I never seen one. The whole work supposed to look like this:
I don't know yet what level hardware model described at, so can't decide how problem model must be formalized to fit hardware model layer.
For example, target system may contain CPU and GPGPU, let's say target solution having 2 concurrent processes. System must decide which process to run on CPU and which on GPGPU. The highest level solution may come from comparing computational intensity of processes with target hardware, which is ~300 for CPUs and ~50 for GPGPUs.
But a normal model gotta be much more complete with at least cache hierarchy, memory access batch size, etc.
Another example is implementing k-ary trees. A synthesized algorithm could address parents and children with computing k * i + c / ( i - 1 ) / k or store direct pointers - depending on computations per memory latency ratio.
Where can I get a hardware model or data to use? Any hardware would suffice for now - to just see how it can look like - later would be awesome to get models of modern processors, GPGPUs and common heterogeneous clusters.
Do manufacturers supply such kinds of models? Description of how their systems work in any formal language.
I'm not pretty sure if it might be the case for you, but as you're mentioning modeling, I just thought about Modelica. It's used to model physical systems and combined with a simulation environment, you can run some simulations on it.