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Cooperative Kernels: GPU Multitasking for Blocking Algorithms

Tyler Sorensen, Hugues Evrard, Alastair F. Donaldson
Imperial College London, London, UK
arXiv:1707.01989 [cs.PL], (6 Jul 2017)

@article{sorensen2017cooperative,

   title={Cooperative Kernels: GPU Multitasking for Blocking Algorithms (Extended Version)},

   author={Sorensen, Tyler and Evrard, Hugues and Donaldson, Alastair F.},

   year={2017},

   month={jul},

   archivePrefix={"arXiv"},

   primaryClass={cs.PL}

}

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There is growing interest in accelerating irregular data-parallel algorithms on GPUs. These algorithms are typically blocking, so they require fair scheduling. But GPU programming models (e.g. OpenCL) do not mandate fair scheduling, and GPU schedulers are unfair in practice. Current approaches avoid this issue by exploiting scheduling quirks of today’s GPUs in a manner that does not allow the GPU to be shared with other workloads (such as graphics rendering tasks). We propose cooperative kernels, an extension to the traditional GPU programming model geared towards writing blocking algorithms. Workgroups of a cooperative kernel are fairly scheduled, and multitasking is supported via a small set of language extensions through which the kernel and scheduler cooperate. We describe a prototype implementation of a cooperative kernel framework implemented in OpenCL 2.0 and evaluate our approach by porting a set of blocking GPU applications to cooperative kernels and examining their performance under multitasking. Our prototype exploits no vendor-specific hardware, driver or compiler support, thus our results provide a lower-bound on the efficiency with which cooperative kernels can be implemented in practice.
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