Improving Stream Buffer Management of Stream-Based Computing Platform on GPU

Author

Arai, Masahiro ; Wada, Koichi ; Yamagiwa, Shinichi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

Nov. 30 2011-Dec. 2 2011

Firstpage

307

Lastpage

312

Abstract

GPU-based computing has become one of the popular high performance computing fields. The field is called GPGPU. This paper presents design and implementation of a uniform GPGPU application that is optimized for both the legacy and the recent GPU architectures. As a typical example of such the GPGPU application, this paper will discuss the uniform implementation of the Caravela platform, with focusing on the method of handling stream buffers. Two methods for handling streams have been proposed and implemented. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed methods, evaluation has been done using applications.

Keywords

buffer storage; computer architecture; graphics processing units; Caravela platform; GPGPU application; GPU architectures; GPU-based computing; handling streams; high performance computing fields; stream buffer management; stream buffers handling; stream-based computing platform; Clocks; Computer architecture; Graphics processing unit; Instruction sets; Kernel; Runtime; CUDA; GPU; Stream Computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networking and Computing (ICNC), 2011 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Osaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1796-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNC.2011.60

Filename

6131835