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Migrating CUDA to oneAPI: A Smith-Waterman Case Study

Manuel Costanzo, Enzo Rucci, Carlos Garcia Sanchez, Marcelo Naiouf, Manuel Prieto-Matias
III-LIDI, Facultad de Inform´atica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata – CIC, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
arXiv:2203.11100 [cs.DC], (21 Mar 2022)
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To face the programming challenges related to heterogeneous computing, Intel recently introduced oneAPI, a new programming environment that allows code developed in Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) language to be run on different devices such as CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, among others. To tackle CUDA-based legacy codes, oneAPI provides a compatibility tool (dpct) that facilitates the migration to DPC++. Due to the large amount of existing CUDA-based software in the bioinformatics context, this paper presents our experiences porting SW#db, a well-known sequence alignment tool, to DPC++ using dpct. From the experimental work, it was possible to prove the usefulness of dpct for SW#db code migration and the cross-GPU vendor, cross-architecture portability of the migrated DPC++ code. In addition, the performance results showed that the migrated DPC++ code reports similar efficiency rates to its CUDA-native counterpart or even better in some tests (approximately +5%).
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