Title :
Accelerator-rich architectures: Opportunities and progresses
Author :
Cong, J. ; Ghodrat, Mohammad Ali ; Gill, Michael ; Grigorian, Beayna ; Gururaj, Karthik ; Reinman, Glenn
Author_Institution :
CS Dept., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
To drastically improve energy efficiency, we believe future processors need to go beyond parallelization and provide architecture support for customization, enabling systems to adapt to different application domains. In particular, we believe future architectures will make extensive use of accelerators to significantly reduce energy consumption. Such architectures present many new challenges and opportunities, such as accelerator synthesis, scheduling, sharing, virtualization, memory hierarchy optimization, and efficient compilation and runtime support. With respect to these areas, we review the progress of our research in the Center for Domain-Specific Computing (supported by the NSF Expeditions-in-Computing Award), and discuss ongoing work and additional challenges.
Keywords :
logic design; low-power electronics; microprocessor chips; accelerator rich architecture; accelerator synthesis; energy consumption reduction; future processor; Acceleration; Application specific integrated circuits; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Energy consumption; Engines; Pipelines; Accelerator Sharing; Accelerator Virtualization; Chip multiprocessor; Hardware Accelerators;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2014 51st ACM/EDAC/IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
DOI :
10.1145/2593069.2596667