Execution of dataflow process networks on OpenCL platforms

Wictor Lund, Sudeep Kanur Chandra Shekar, Johan Ersfolk, Leonidas Tsiopoulos, Johan Lilius, Joakim Haldin, Ulf Falk

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The trend in computing systems is to combine various kinds of processing elements (PEs) to build more parallel architectures. This trend leads to more heterogeneous computing systems, for which abstractions are needed to efficiently program the systems without increasing the programming cost. This has lead to new programming languages and application program- ming interfaces (APIs). Parallel programming has always been a holy grail in computer science and dataflow programming promises a way to automatically provide parallel constructs for the programmer. This paper provides an approach to translate dataflow process networks (DPNs) into programs running some of the computations on the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) platform, supporting running programs on massively parallel hardware such as graphics processing units (GPUs). We show that certain DPN programs could run very efficiently on data- parallel architectures but also that there are certain patterns in DPN programs that prove problematic.

The trend in computing systems is to combine various kinds of processing elements (PEs) to build more parallel architectures. This trend leads to more heterogeneous computing systems, for which abstractions are needed to efficiently program the systems without increasing the programming cost. This has lead to new programming languages and application programming interfaces (APIs). Parallel programming has always been a holy grail in computer science and dataflow programming promises a way to automatically provide parallel constructs for the programmer. This paper provides an approach to translate dataflow process networks (DPNs) into programs running some of the computations on the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) platform, supporting running programs on massively parallel hardware such as graphics processing units (GPUs). We show that certain DPN programs could run very efficiently on dataparallel architectures but also that there are certain patterns in DPN programs that prove problematic.

OriginalspråkOdefinierat/okänt
Titel på värdpublikationParallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP), 2015 23rd Euromicro International Conference on
RedaktörerMasoud Daneshtalab, Marco Aldinucci, Ville Leppänen, Johan Lilius, Mats Brorsson
FörlagIEEE
Sidor618–625
ISBN (tryckt)978-1-4799-8492-3
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 2015
MoE-publikationstypA4 Artikel i en konferenspublikation
EvenemangEuromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP) - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2015)
Varaktighet: 4 mars 20156 mars 2015

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KonferensEuromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP)
Period04/03/1506/03/15

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