Wed 17 Jun 2015 14:25 - 14:50 at PLDI Main BLUE (Portland 254-255) - Parallelism Chair(s): Sara Baghsorkhi

The pursuit of computational efficiency has led to the proliferation of throughput-oriented hardware, from GPUs to increasingly-wide vector units on commodity processors and accelerators. This hardware is designed to efficiently execute data-parallel computations in a vectorized manner. However, many algorithms are more naturally expressed as divide-and-conquer, recursive, task-parallel computations; in the absence of data parallelism, it seems that such algorithms are not well-suited to throughput-oriented architectures. This paper presents a set of novel code transformations that expose the data-parallelism latent in recursive, task-parallel programs. These transformations facilitate straightforward vectorization of task-parallel programs on commodity hardware. We also present scheduling policies that maintain high utilization of vector resources while limiting space usage. Across several task-parallel benchmarks, we demonstrate both efficient vector resource utilization and substantial speedup on chips using Intel’s SSE4.2 vector units as well as accelerators using Intel’s AVX512 units.

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Wed 17 Jun

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14:00 - 15:40
14:00
25m
Talk
Celebrating Diversity: A Mixture of Experts Approach for Runtime Mapping in Dynamic Environments
Research Papers
Murali Krishna Emani The University of Edinburgh, Michael F. P. O'Boyle University of Edinburgh
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14:25
25m
Talk
Efficient Execution of Recursive Programs on Commodity Vector Hardware
Research Papers
Bin Ren Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Youngjoon Jo Purdue University, Sriram Krishnamoorthy Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Kunal Agrawal Washington University in St. Louis, Milind Kulkarni Purdue University
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14:50
25m
Talk
Loop and Data Transformations for Sparse Matrix Code
Research Papers
Anand Venkat University of Utah, Mary Hall University of Utah, Michelle Strout Colorado State University
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15:15
25m
Talk
Synthesizing Parallel Graph Programs via Automated Planning
Research Papers
Dimitrios Prountzos The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA, Roman Manevich Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Keshav Pingali University of Texas, Austin
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