Abstract
Stream programming offers a portable way for regular applications such as digital video, software radio, multimedia and 3D graphics to exploit a multiprocessor machine. The compiler maps a portable stream program onto the target, automatically sizing communications buffers and applying optimizing transformations such as task fission or fusion, unrolling loops and aggregating communication. We present a machine description and performance model for an iterative stream compilation flow, which represents the stream program running on a heterogeneous multiprocessor system with distributed or shared memory. The model is a key component of the ACOTES open-source stream compiler currently under development. Our experiments on the Cell Broadband Engine show that the predicted throughput has a maximum relative error of 15% across our benchmarks.
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Carpenter, P.M., Ramirez, A., Ayguade, E. (2009). The Abstract Streaming Machine: Compile-Time Performance Modelling of Stream Programs on Heterogeneous Multiprocessors. In: Bertels, K., Dimopoulos, N., Silvano, C., Wong, S. (eds) Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation. SAMOS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5657. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03138-0_3
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