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SPLASH 2016
Sun 30 October - Fri 4 November 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wed 2 Nov 2016 10:30 - 10:55 at Matterhorn 1 - Optimization and Performance Chair(s): Jan Vitek

Writing high-performance GPU implementations of graph algorithms
can be challenging. In this paper, we argue that three optimizations
called throughput optimizations are key to high-performance
for this application class.
These optimizations describe a large implementation space making it unrealistic for programmers to implement them by hand.

To address this problem, we have implemented these optimizations in a compiler that
produces CUDA code from an intermediate-level program representation
called IrGL.
Compared to state-of-the-art handwritten CUDA implementations of eight graph applications,
code generated by the IrGL compiler is up to 5.95x times faster (median 1.4x) for five applications and never
more than 30% slower for the others. Throughput optimizations contribute an improvement
up to 4.16x (median 1.4x) to the performance of unoptimized IrGL code.

Wed 2 Nov

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10:30 - 12:10
Optimization and PerformanceOOPSLA at Matterhorn 1
Chair(s): Jan Vitek Northeastern University
10:30
25m
Talk
A Compiler for Throughput Optimization of Graph Algorithms on GPUsAEC
OOPSLA
Sreepathi Pai University of Texas at Austin, USA, Keshav Pingali University of Texas at Austin, USA
DOI Pre-print
10:55
25m
Talk
Automatic Parallelization of Pure Method Calls via Conditional Future Synthesis
OOPSLA
Rishi Surendran Rice University, USA, Vivek Sarkar Rice University, USA
DOI
11:20
25m
Talk
Portable Inter-workgroup Barrier Synchronisation for GPUsAEC
OOPSLA
Tyler Sorensen Imperial College London, Alastair F. Donaldson Imperial College London, Mark Batty University of Kent, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan University of Utah, Zvonimir Rakamaric University of Utah
DOI Pre-print
11:45
25m
Talk
Parallel Incremental Whole-Program Optimizations for Scala.js
OOPSLA
Sébastien Doeraene EPFL, Switzerland, Tobias Schlatter EPFL, Switzerland
DOI Pre-print