Hybrid OpenCL: Connecting Different OpenCL Implementations over Network

Author

Aoki, Ryo ; Oikawa, Shuichi ; Tsuchiyama, Ryoji ; Nakamura, Takashi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

June 29 2010-July 1 2010

Firstpage

2729

Lastpage

2735

Abstract

We are developing Hybrid OpenCL, which enables the connection between different OpenCL implementations over the network. Hybrid OpenCL consists of two elements, a runtime system that provides the abstraction of different OpenCL implementations and a bridge program that connects multiple OpenCL runtime systems over the network. Hybrid OpenCL enables the construction of the scalable OpenCL environments. It enables applications written in OpenCL to be easily ported to high performance cluster computers; thus, Hybrid OpenCL can provide more various parallel computing platforms and the progress of utility value of OpenCL applications. This paper describes the implementation of Hybrid OpenCL and its results from experimentation. The experimental results show that the overhead introduced by Hybrid OpenCL is minimum and can be amortized by actual data processing time.

Keywords

multiprocessing systems; parallel programming; OpenCL implementations; data processing time; hybrid OpenCL; runtime system; Bridges; Context; Graphics processing unit; Kernel; Parallel processing; Resource management; Runtime; GPGPU; HPC; Heterogeneous computing; Middleware; OpenCL;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bradford

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7547-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2010.457

Filename

5578537