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Synthesising graphics card programs from DSLs by Luke Cartey; Rune Lyngsø; Oege de Moor is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Synthesising graphics card programs from DSLs about?
Over the last five years, graphics cards have become a tempting target for scientific computing, thanks to unrivaled peak performance, often producing a runtime speed-up of x10 to x25 over comparable CPU solutions. However, this increase can be difficult to achieve, and doing so often requires a fundamental rethink. This is especially problematic in scientific computing, where experts do not want to learn yet another architecture. In this paper we develop a method for automatically parallelising recursive functions of the sort found in scientific papers. Using a static analysis of the function dependencies we identify sets - partitions - of independent elements, which we use to synthesise an efficient GPU implementation using polyhedral code generation techniques. We then augment our language with DSL extensions to support a wider variety of applications, and demonstrate the effectiveness of this with three case studies, showing significant performance improvement over equivalent CPU methods, and similar efficiency to hand-tuned GPU implementations.
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- Author
- Luke Cartey; Rune Lyngsø; Oege de Moor
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Computer Science (Physical Sciences)