MIAOW - An open source RTL implementation of a GPGPU

Author

Balasubramanian, Raghuraman ; Gangadhar, Vinay ; Ziliang Guo ; Chen-Han Ho ; Joseph, Cherin ; Menon, Jaikrishnan ; Drumond, Mario Paulo ; Paul, Robin ; Prasad, Sharath ; Valathol, Pradip ; Sankaralingam, Karthikeyan

Author_Institution

Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

13-15 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) based general purpose computing is developing as a viable alternative to CPU based computing in many domains. In this paper, we introduce MIAOW (Many-core Integrated Accelerator Of Wisconsin), an open source RTL implementation of the AMD Southern Islands GPGPU ISA, capable of running unmodified OpenCL-based applications. We present our design motivated by our goals to create a realistic, flexible, OpenCL compatible GPGPU, capable of emulating a full system. We demonstrate that MIAOW enables disruptive and transformative research and has the potential to bring all of the benefits of open source development to GPUs in real products in the long term.

Keywords

graphics processing units; multiprocessing systems; public domain software; AMD Southern Islands; CPU based computing; GPGPU ISA; GPU based general purpose computing; MIAOW; graphic processing unit; many-core integrated accelerator of Wisconsin; open source RTL implementation; open source development; unmodified OpenCL-based applications; Computer architecture; Electric breakdown; Graphics processing units; Market research; Pipelines; Registers; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Low-Power and High-Speed Chips (COOL CHIPS XVIII), 2015 IEEE Symposium in

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CoolChips.2015.7158663

Filename

7158663