Performance analysis of a hardware accelerator of dependence management for task-based dataflow programming models

Along with the popularity of multicore and manycore, task-based dataflow programming models obtain great attention for being able to extract high parallelism from applications without exposing the complexity to programmers. One of these pioneers is the OpenMP Superscalar (OmpSs). By implementing dyn...

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Vydáno v:2016 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) s. 225 - 234
Hlavní autoři: Xubin Tan, Bosch, Jaume, Jimenez-Gonzalez, Daniel, Alvarez-Martinez, Carlos, Ayguade, Eduard, Valero, Mateo
Médium: Konferenční příspěvek
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: IEEE 01.04.2016
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Computer architecture
Discrete cosine transforms
Hardware
Parallel processing
Programming
Prototypes
Runtime
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Shrnutí:Along with the popularity of multicore and manycore, task-based dataflow programming models obtain great attention for being able to extract high parallelism from applications without exposing the complexity to programmers. One of these pioneers is the OpenMP Superscalar (OmpSs). By implementing dynamic task dependence analysis, dataflow scheduling and out-of-order execution in runtime, OmpSs achieves high performance using coarse and medium granularity tasks. In theory, for the same application, the more parallel tasks can be exposed, the higher possible speedup can be achieved. Yet this factor is limited by task granularity, up to a point where the runtime overhead outweighs the performance increase and slows down the application. To overcome this handicap, Picos was proposed to support task-based dataflow programming models like OmpSs as a fast hardware accelerator for fine-grained task and dependence management, and a simulator was developed to perform design space exploration. This paper presents the very first functional hardware prototype inspired by Picos. An embedded system based on a Zynq 7000 All-Programmable SoC is developed to study its capabilities and possible bottlenecks. Initial scalability and hardware consumption studies of different Picos designs are performed to find the one with the highest performance and lowest hardware cost. A further thorough performance study is employed on both the prototype with the most balanced configuration and the OmpSs software-only alternative. Results show that our OmpSs runtime hardware support significantly outperforms the software-only implementation currently available in the runtime system for fine-grained tasks.
DOI:10.1109/ISPASS.2016.7482097