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AvA: Accelerated Virtualization of Accelerators

Hangchen Yu, Arthur Michener Peters, Amogh Akshintala, Christopher J. Rossbach
The University of Texas at Austin
Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS ’20), 2020

@inproceedings{yu2020ava,

   title={AvA: Accelerated Virtualization of Accelerators},

   author={Yu, Hangchen and Peters, Arthur M and Akshintala, Amogh and Rossbach, Christopher J},

   booktitle={International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)},

   year={2020}

}

Applications are migrating en masse to the cloud, while accelerators such as GPUs, TPUs, and FPGAs proliferate in the wake of Moore’s Law. These trends are in conflict: cloud applications run on virtual platforms, but existing virtualization techniques have not provided production-ready solutions for accelerators. As a result, cloud providers expose accelerators by dedicating physical devices to individual guests. Multi-tenancy and consolidation are lost as a consequence. We present AvA, which addresses limitations of existing virtualization techniques with automated construction of hypervisor-managed virtual accelerator stacks. AvA combines a DSL for describing APIs and sharing policies, deviceagnostic runtime components, and a compiler to generate accelerator-specific components such as guest libraries and API servers. AvA uses Hypervisor Interposed Remote Acceleration (HIRA), a new technique to enable hypervisorenforcement of sharing policies from the specification. We use AvA to virtualize nine accelerators and eleven framework APIs, including six for which no virtualization support has been previously explored. AvA provides nearnative performance and can enforce sharing policies that are not possible with current techniques, with orders of magnitude less developer effort than required for hand-built virtualization support.
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