On the characterization of OpenCL dwarfs on fixed and reconfigurable platforms

Proceedings of the International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 153-160

  Krommydas, Konstantinos ^a   Feng, Wu Chun ^a   Owaida, Muhsen ^b   Antonopoulos, Christos D ^b   Bellas, Nikolaos ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

benchmarking; CPU; dwarfs; evaluation; FPGA; GPU; OpenCL; OpenDwarfs; performance characterization

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HARDWARE; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

CPU; DWARFS; EVALUATION; GPU; OPENCL; OPENDWARFS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION;

FIXED PLATFORMS;

EID: 84906329903     PISSN: 10636862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASAP.2014.6868650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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