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Verification of Producer-Consumer Synchronization in GPU Programs

Rahul Sharma, Michael Bauer, Alex Aiken
Stanford University
36th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2015

@article{sharma2015verification,

   title={Verification of Producer-Consumer Synchronization in GPU Programs},

   author={Sharma, Rahul and Bauer, Michael and Aiken, Alex},

   year={2015}

}

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, warp-specialized kernels based on producer-consumer 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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