Paper Info
Title
Exploiting Heterogeneous Mobile Architectures Through a Unified Runtime Framework.
Abstract
Modern mobile SoCs are typically integrated with multiple heterogeneous hardware accelerators such as GPU and DSP. Resource heavy applications such as object detection and image recognition based on convolutional neural networks are accelerated by offloading these computation-intensive algorithms to the accelerators to meet their stringent performance constraints. Conventionally there are device-specific runtime and programming languages supported for programming each accelerator, and these offloading tasks are typically pre-mapped to a specific compute unit at compile time, missing the opportunity to exploit other underutilized compute resources to gain better performance. To address this shortcoming, we present SURF: a Self-aware Unified Runtime Framework for Parallel Programs on Heterogeneous Mobile Architectures. SURF supports several heterogeneous parallel programming languages (including OpenMP and OpenCL), and enables dynamic task-mapping to heterogeneous resources based on runtime measurement and prediction. The measurement and monitoring loop enables self-aware adaptation of run-time mapping to exploit the best available resource dynamically. Our SURF framework has been implemented on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 development board and evaluated on a mix of image recognition (CNN), image filtering applications and synthetic benchmarks to demonstrate the versatility and efficacy of our unified runtime framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-53273-4_15
VLSI-SoC
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chen-Ying Hsieh1133.42
Ardalan Amiri Sani214921.84
Nikil Dutt34960421.49