GPGPU 2015 – Proceedings

8th Workshop on General Purpose Processing using GPUs (GPGPU 8), February 7, 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA

8th Workshop on General Purpose Processing using GPUs (GPGPU 8)

Preface

Title Page
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Message from the Workshop Organizers
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HPC

A Comparative Investigation of Device-Specific Mechanisms for Exploiting HPC Accelerators
Ayman Tarakji, Lukas Börger, and Rainer Leupers
(RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Article: ppoppws15gpgpumain-5-p (type: Full Paper(12 Pages)) doi:

Cache and Shared Memory

GPU-SM: Shared Memory Multi-GPU Programming
Javier Cabezas, Marc Jordà, Isaac Gelado, Nacho Navarro, and Wen-mei Hwu
(Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain; NVIDIA, USA; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Article: ppoppws15gpgpumain-2-p (type: Full Paper(12 Pages)) doi:

Adaptive GPU Cache Bypassing
Yingying Tian, Sooraj Puthoor, Joseph L. Greathouse, Bradford M. Beckmann, and Daniel A. Jiménez
(Texas A&M University, USA; AMD Research, USA)
Article: ppoppws15gpgpumain-3-p (type: Full Paper(12 Pages)) doi:

Efficient Utilization of GPGPU Cache Hierarchy
Mahmoud Khairy, Mohamed Zahran, and Amr G. Wassal
(Cairo University, Egypt; New York University, USA)
Article: ppoppws15gpgpumain-6-p (type: Full Paper(12 Pages)) doi:

Optimization

Effects of Source-Code Optimizations on GPU Performance and Energy Consumption
Jared Coplin and Martin Burtscher
(Texas State University, USA)
Article: ppoppws15gpgpumain-1-p (type: Full Paper(12 Pages)) doi:

Optimization for Performance and Energy for Batched Matrix Computations on GPUs
Azzam Haidar, Tingxing Dong, Piotr Luszczek, Stanimire Tomov, and Jack Dongarra
(University of Tennessee, USA; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; University of Manchester, UK)
Article: ppoppws15gpgpumain-10-p (type: Full Paper(12 Pages)) doi:

Helium: A Transparent Inter-kernel Optimizer for OpenCL
Thibaut Lutz, Christian Fensch, and Murray Cole
(University of Edinburgh, UK; Heriot-Watt University, UK)
Article: ppoppws15gpgpumain-7-p (type: Full Paper(12 Pages)) doi:

Applications

Stochastic Gradient Descent on GPUs
Rashid Kaleem, Sreepathi Pai, and Keshav Pingali
(University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Article: ppoppws15gpgpumain-11-p (type: Full Paper(12 Pages)) doi:

High Performance Computing of Fiber Scattering Simulation
Leiming Yu, Yan Zhang, Xiang Gong, Nilay Roy, Lee Makowski, and David Kaeli
(Northeastern University, USA)
Article: ppoppws15gpgpumain-14-p (type: Full Paper(12 Pages)) doi:

Rethinking the Parallelization of Random-Restart Hill Climbing: A Case Study in Optimizing a 2-Opt TSP Solver for GPU Execution
Molly A. O'Neil and Martin Burtscher
(Texas State University, USA)
Article: ppoppws15gpgpumain-8-p (type: Full Paper(12 Pages)) doi:

Forma: A DSL for Image Processing Applications to Target GPUs and Multi-core CPUs
Mahesh Ravishankar, Justin Holewinski, and Vinod Grover
(NVIDIA, USA)
Article: ppoppws15gpgpumain-9-p (type: Full Paper(12 Pages)) doi: