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Runtime Behavior Comparison of Modern Accelerators and Coprocessors

Published: 19 May 2014 Publication History

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Recently, a variety of accelerator architectures became available in the field of high performance computing. Intel's MIC (Many Integrated Core) and both GPU architectures, NVIDIA's Kepler and AMD's Graphics Core Next, all represent the latest innovation in the field of general purpose computing accelerators. This paper explores several important characteristics of these architectures and investigates the impact of certain design factors on the achieved performance using the uCLbench micro-benchmarks, the NPB (NAS Parallel Benchmark) suite and diverse real-world applications from the field of physics. Based on the single unified programming interface OpenCL, we observe the run-time behavior of each test program on several test platforms. Major architectural discrepancies are studied and a higher level examination is discussed in details.

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    IPDPSW '14: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops
    May 2014
    1737 pages
    ISBN:9781479941162

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    IEEE Computer Society

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    Published: 19 May 2014

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    1. GPGPU, OpenCL, Accelerator, benchmarking, MIC, Kepler, Graphics Core Next

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    • (2015)A comparative investigation of device-specific mechanisms for exploiting HPC acceleratorsProceedings of the 8th Workshop on General Purpose Processing using GPUs10.1145/2716282.2716293(1-12)Online publication date: 7-Feb-2015

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