DocumentCode
125680
Title
A Class-Structured Approach to Couple Application and Hybrid Core Parallelism
Author
Ross, J. Andrew ; Richie, David A. ; Park, S.J. ; Shires, Dale R. ; Henz, Brian J.
Author_Institution
Dynamics Res. Corp., Andover, MA, USA
fYear
2014
fDate
12-14 Feb. 2014
Firstpage
681
Lastpage
687
Abstract
This paper presents an application that performs multi-objective geospatial optimizations for tactical mission planning in an urban environment. Utilizing a XML-driven C++ framework developed for hybrid platforms, the application distributes computational tasks to a collection of heterogeneous OpenCL devices and achieves efficient task parallel scaling. The framework abstracts the details of the mission scenario setup, compute device architecture details, and task scheduling to enable robust extensibility in software. Performance scalability and multi-objective parameter visualization for a prototypical mission scenario are documented in this study.
Keywords
C++ language; military computing; optimisation; OpenCL devices; XML-driven C++ framework; class-structured approach; hybrid core parallelism; multiobjective geospatial optimizations; multiobjective parameter visualization; performance scalability; tactical mission planning; task parallel scaling; task scheduling; urban environment; Computer architecture; Engines; Force; Graphics processing units; Optimization; XML; C++; GPGPU; OpenCL framework; XML;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP), 2014 22nd Euromicro International Conference on
Conference_Location
Torino
ISSN
1066-6192
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PDP.2014.41
Filename
6787347
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