Mon 15 Jun 2015 14:25 - 14:50 at PLDI Main BLUE (Portland 254-255) - Verification Chair(s): Zachary Tatlock

Previous efforts to formally verify code written for GPUs have focused solely on kernels written within the traditional data-parallel GPU programming model. No previous work has considered the higher performance, but more complex, {\em warp-specialized} kernels based on producer-consumer {\em named barriers} available on current hardware. In this work we present the first formal operational semantics for named barriers and define what it means for a warp-specialized kernel to be correct. We give algorithms for verifying the correctness of warp-specialized kernels and prove that they are both sound and complete for the most common class of warp-specialized programs. We also present WEFT, a verification tool for checking warp-specialized code. Using WEFT, we discover several non-trivial bugs in production warp-specialized kernels.

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Mon 15 Jun

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14:00 - 15:40
VerificationResearch Papers at PLDI Main BLUE (Portland 254-255)
Chair(s): Zachary Tatlock University of Washington, Seattle
14:00
25m
Talk
Mechanized Verification of Fine-grained Concurrent Programs
Research Papers
Ilya Sergey IMDEA Software Institute, Aleksandar Nanevski IMDEA Software Institute, Anindya Banerjee IMDEA Software Institute
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14:25
25m
Talk
Verification of Producer-Consumer Synchronization in GPU Programs
Research Papers
Rahul Sharma Stanford University, Michael Bauer NVIDIA Research, Alex Aiken Stanford University
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14:50
25m
Talk
Relaxing Safely: Verified On-the-Fly Garbage Collection for x86-TSO
Research Papers
Peter Gammie NICTA, Tony Hosking Australian National University, Data61, and Purdue University, Kai Engelhardt UNSW and NICTA
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15:15
25m
Talk
Verifying Read-Copy-Update in a Logic for Weak Memory
Research Papers
Joseph Tassarotti Carnegie Mellon University, Derek Dreyer MPI-SWS, Viktor Vafeiadis MPI-SWS, Germany
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