On GPU’s viability as a middleware accelerator
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada, V6T 1Z4
Cluster Computing, Vol. 12, No. 2. (2009), pp. 123-140.
@article{al2009gpu,
title={On GPUs viability as a middleware accelerator},
author={Al-Kiswany, S. and Gharaibeh, A. and Santos-Neto, E. and Ripeanu, M.},
journal={Cluster Computing},
volume={12},
number={2},
pages={123–140},
year={2009},
publisher={Springer}
}
Today Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a largely underexploited resource on existing desktops and a possible cost-effective enhancement to high-performance systems. To date, most applications that exploit GPUs are specialized scientific applications. Little attention has been paid to harnessing these highly-parallel devices to support more generic functionality at the operating system or middleware level. This study starts from the hypothesis that generic middleware-level techniques that improve distributed system reliability or performance (such as content addressing, erasure coding, or data similarity detection) can be significantly accelerated using GPU support.
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