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......@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ However, programming such systems can be extremely complex as a single
SoC combines multiple different
parallelism models, instruction sets, and memory hierarchies, and different
SoCs use \emph{different combinations} of these features.
We propose a new Virtual Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that aims to
We propose \NAME{}, a new Virtual Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that aims to
address both functional portability and performance portability across
mobile heterogeneous SoCs by capturing the wide range of different
parallelism models expected to be available on future SoCs.
Our virtual ISA design uses only two parallelism models to achieve this goal:
\emph{a hierarchical dataflow graph with side effects} and
\emph{parametric vector instructions}.
Our virtual ISA is more general than existing ones that focus heavily on GPUs,
\NAME{} is more general than existing ones that focus heavily on GPUs,
such as PTX, HSAIL and SPIR, e.g., it can capture both streaming pipelined
parallelism and general dataflow parallelism found in many custom and
semi-custom (programmable) accelerators.
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......@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Algorithm~\ref{algo:traversal} to traverse the graph of any internal node $N$.
\State $L \gets$ list of all nodes of $G$ in topological order
\While {$L$ is non-empty}
\State remove a node $n$ from $L$
\State $\textsc{CodeGen}(n)$
\State $\textsc{Visit}(n)$
\EndWhile
\EndIf
\EndProcedure
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\section{Related Work}
\label{sec:related}
\todo[inline]{Source level programming languages}
\todo[inline]{Object code representation}
\todo[inline]{Compiler techniques - Tangram, Samar}
\todo[inline]{Source level programming languages OpenCL, CUDA, Renderscript,
Delite, ispc, halide}
There are currently a few projects aiming to address the programmability and
portability challenges of SoC applications, but the ones focused at the source
level such as OpenCL~\cite{OpenCL}, Lime~\ref{Lime} and
Renderscript~\cite{Renderscript}, are inadequate because they usually do not
provide adequately general parallelism models, which makes them unsuitable for
general purpose computation, and none of them provides object code portability,
with the exception of Renderscript. Renderscript, however, is tailored for image
filtering applications and uses LLVM scalar and vector code as its portable
object code format. Thus, it does not provide appropriate abstractions for the
different classes of parallel hardware.
\todo[inline]{Object code representation HSAIL, SPIR, PTX}
The ones focused on the object level
such as nVidia’s PTX~\cite{PTX2.3Manual:URL}, OpenCL SPIR~\cite{SPIRKhronosSpec}, HSAIL~\cite{HSAIL} are either limited in scope of
supported hardware (for instance, PTX is designed specifically for nVidia
GPUs) or expose a restrictive throughput-oriented data parallelism and no other
models like dataflow-style or task parallelsim required across different
hardware.
\todo[inline]{Compiler techniques - Tangram, Samar Amarasinghe's work}
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