Steuwer, M. and Gorlatch, S. (2013) High-Level Programming for Medical Imaging on Multi-GPU Systems Using the SkelCL Library. In: 2013 International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2013), Barcelona, Spain, 05-07 Jun 2013, pp. 749-758. (doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2013.05.239)
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Abstract
Application development for modern high-performance systems with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) relies on low-level programming approaches like CUDA and OpenCL, which leads to complex, lengthy and error-prone programs. In this paper, we present SkelCL – a high-level programming model for systems with multiple GPUs and its implementation as a library on top of OpenCL. SkelCL provides three main enhancements to the OpenCL standard: 1) computations are conveniently expressed using parallel patterns (skeletons); 2) memory management is simplified using parallel container data types; 3) an automatic data (re)distribution mechanism allows for scalability when using multi-GPU systems. We use a real-world example from the field of medical imaging to motivate the design of our programming model and we show how application development using SkelCL is simplified without sacrificing performance: we were able to reduce the code size in our imaging example application by 50% while introducing only a moderate runtime overhead of less than 5%.
Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Steuwer, Dr Michel |
Authors: | Steuwer, M., and Gorlatch, S. |
Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science |
ISSN: | 1877-0509 |
Published Online: | 01 June 2013 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2013 The Authors |
First Published: | First published in Procedia Computer Science 18: 749-758 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons license |
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