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SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012

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Dataflow-Driven GPU Performance Projection for Multi-Kernel Transformations

SESSION: Performance Modeling

EVENT TYPE: Papers

TIME: 10:30AM - 11:00AM

SESSION CHAIR: Dimitris Nikolopoulos

AUTHOR(S):Jiayuan Meng, Vitali Morozov, Venkatram Vishwanath, Kalyan Kumaran

ROOM:355-EF

ABSTRACT:
Applications often have a sequence of parallel operations to be offloaded to graphics processors; each operation can become an individual GPU kernel. Developers typically explore different transformations for each kernel. It is wellknown that efficient data management is critical in achieving high GPU performance and that fusing multiple kernels into one may greatly improve data locality. Doing so, however, requires transformations across multiple, potentially nested, parallel loops; at the same time, the original code semantics must be preserved. Since each kernel may have distinct data access patterns, their combined dataflow can be nontrivial. As a result, the complexity of multi-kernel transformations often leads to significant effort with no guarantee of performance benefits. This paper proposes a dataflow-driven analytical framework to project GPU performance for a sequence of parallel operations without implementing GPU code or using physical hardware. The framework also suggests multi-kernel transformations that can achieve the projected performance.

Chair/Author Details:

Dimitris Nikolopoulos (Chair) - Queen's University Belfast

Jiayuan Meng - Argonne National Laboratory

Vitali Morozov - Argonne National Laboratory

Venkatram Vishwanath - Argonne National Laboratory

Kalyan Kumaran - Argonne National Laboratory

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Dataflow-Driven GPU Performance Projection for Multi-Kernel Transformations

SESSION: Performance Modeling

EVENT TYPE:

TIME: 10:30AM - 11:00AM

SESSION CHAIR: Dimitris Nikolopoulos

AUTHOR(S):Jiayuan Meng, Vitali Morozov, Venkatram Vishwanath, Kalyan Kumaran

ROOM:355-EF

ABSTRACT:
Applications often have a sequence of parallel operations to be offloaded to graphics processors; each operation can become an individual GPU kernel. Developers typically explore different transformations for each kernel. It is wellknown that efficient data management is critical in achieving high GPU performance and that fusing multiple kernels into one may greatly improve data locality. Doing so, however, requires transformations across multiple, potentially nested, parallel loops; at the same time, the original code semantics must be preserved. Since each kernel may have distinct data access patterns, their combined dataflow can be nontrivial. As a result, the complexity of multi-kernel transformations often leads to significant effort with no guarantee of performance benefits. This paper proposes a dataflow-driven analytical framework to project GPU performance for a sequence of parallel operations without implementing GPU code or using physical hardware. The framework also suggests multi-kernel transformations that can achieve the projected performance.

Chair/Author Details:

Dimitris Nikolopoulos (Chair) - Queen's University Belfast

Jiayuan Meng - Argonne National Laboratory

Vitali Morozov - Argonne National Laboratory

Venkatram Vishwanath - Argonne National Laboratory

Kalyan Kumaran - Argonne National Laboratory

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