Automatically Mapping Program Functions to Distributed Heterogeneous Platforms Based on Hardware Attributes and Specified Constraints

A system comprising:

• a plurality of hardware processing elements;
• at least one processor;
• and
• a storage device storing a plurality of program functions, information pertaining to the plurality of hardware elements, and instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
• determine constraint information associated with the plurality of program functions;
• determine attributes of the plurality of hardware processing elements, wherein particular ones of the plurality of hardware processing elements have different attributes with respect to other ones of the plurality of hardware processing elements;
• and
• automatically generate a mapping of selected ones of the plurality of program functions for execution on correspondingly selected ones of the plurality of hardware processing elements, wherein the mapping is based on the constraint information and the attributes.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer system, cause the computer system to perform the following:

• determine constraint information associated with the plurality of program functions;
• determine attributes of the plurality of hardware processing elements, wherein particular ones of the plurality of hardware processing elements have different attributes with respect to other ones of the plurality of hardware processing elements;
• and
• automatically generate a mapping, using a computer system, of selected ones of the plurality of program functions for execution on correspondingly selected ones of the plurality of hardware processing elements, wherein the mapping is based on the constraint information and the attributes.