Energy efficient HPC on embedded SoCs: Optimization techniques for mali GPU

Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 123-132

  Grasso, Ivan ^a,b   Radojković, Petar ^a   Rajovic, Nikola ^a,c   Gelado, Isaac ^a   Ramirez, Alex ^a,c  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Embedded GPUs; High performance computing; Optimization; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

ARM PROCESSORS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MASKS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

EMBEDDED GPUS; EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGY; ENERGY CAPABILITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING MODEL; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE OPTIMIZATION;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84906653007     PISSN: 15302075     EISSN: 23321237     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2014.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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