Advances in Gpu Research and Practice

Informationen zum Autor Hamid Sarbazi-Azad is currently a professor of computer science and engineering at Sharif University of Technology, and a research professor of computer science at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, both in Tehran, Iran . His research interests include high-performance computer/memory architectures, NoCs and SoCs, learning architectures,, social networks, and storage systems, on which he has published over 400 refereed papers. He received Khwarizmi International Award in 2006, TWAS Young Scientist Award in engineering sciences in 2007, and Sharif University Distinguished Researcher awards in years 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2013. He is now an associate editor of ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, and Elsevier's Computers and Electrical Engineering. Klappentext Advances in GPU Research and Practice focuses on research and practices in GPU based systems. The topics treated cover a range of issues! ranging from hardware and architectural issues! to high level issues! such as application systems! parallel programming! middleware! and power and energy issues. Divided into six parts! this edited volume provides the latest research on GPU computing. Part I: Architectural Solutions focuses on the architectural topics that improve on performance of GPUs! Part II: System Software discusses OS! compilers! libraries! programming environment! languages! and paradigms that are proposed and analyzed to help and support GPU programmers. Part III: Power and Reliability Issues covers different aspects of energy! power! and reliability concerns in GPUs. Part IV: Performance Analysis illustrates mathematical and analytical techniques to predict different performance metrics in GPUs. Part V: Algorithms presents how to design efficient algorithms and analyze their complexity for GPUs. Part VI: Applications and Related Topics provides use cases and examples of how GPUs are used across many sectors. ...

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Hamid Sarbazi-Azad is currently a professor of computer science and engineering at Sharif University of Technology, and a research professor of computer science at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, both in Tehran, Iran . His research interests include high-performance computer/memory architectures, NoCs and SoCs, learning architectures,, social networks, and storage systems, on which he has published over 400 refereed papers. He received Khwarizmi International Award in 2006, TWAS Young Scientist Award in engineering sciences in 2007, and Sharif University Distinguished Researcher awards in years 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2013. He is now an associate editor of ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, and Elsevier's Computers and Electrical Engineering.

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Advances in GPU Research and Practice focuses on research and practices in GPU based systems. The topics treated cover a range of issues, ranging from hardware and architectural issues, to high level issues, such as application systems, parallel programming, middleware, and power and energy issues. Divided into six parts, this edited volume provides the latest research on GPU computing. Part I: Architectural Solutions focuses on the architectural topics that improve on performance of GPUs, Part II: System Software discusses OS, compilers, libraries, programming environment, languages, and paradigms that are proposed and analyzed to help and support GPU programmers. Part III: Power and Reliability Issues covers different aspects of energy, power, and reliability concerns in GPUs. Part IV: Performance Analysis illustrates mathematical and analytical techniques to predict different performance metrics in GPUs. Part V: Algorithms presents how to design efficient algorithms and analyze their complexity for GPUs. Part VI: Applications and Related Topics provides use cases and examples of how GPUs are used across many sectors.

Inhalt

Part 1: Programming and Tools
1. Formal analysis techniques for reliable GPU programming: current solutions and call to action

2. SnuCL: A unified OpenCL framework for heterogeneous clusters
3. Thread communication and synchronization on massively parallel GPUs
4. Software-level task scheduling on GPUs

5. Data placement on GPUs

   Part 2: Algorithms and Applications
   6. Biological sequence analysis on GPU

6. Graph algorithms on GPUs
7. GPU alignment of two and three sequences
8. Augmented Block Cimmino Distributed Algorithm for solving tridiagonal systems on GPU
9. GPU computing applied to linear and mixed-integer programming
10. GPU-accelerated shortest paths computations for planar graphs
11. GPU sorting algorithms
12. MPC: An effective floating-point compression algorithm for GPUs

13. Adaptive sparse matrix representation for efficient matrix-vector multiplication

    Part 3: Architecture and Performance
    15. A framework for accelerating bottlenecks in GPU execution with assist warps

14. Accelerating GPU accelerators through neural algorithmic transformation
15. The need for heterogeneous network-on-chip architectures with GPGPUs: A case study with photonic interconnects

16. Accurately modeling GPGPU frequency scaling with the CRISP performance model

    Part 4: Power and Reliability
    19. Energy and power considerations of GPUs

17. Architecting the last-level cache for GPUs using STT-MRAM nonvolatile memory
18. Power management of mobile GPUs
19. Advances in GPU reliability research
20. Addressing hardware reliability challenges in general-purpose GPUs