Fast Schedulability Analysis Using Commodity Graphics Hardware

  • Authors:
  • Jimin Feng;Samarjit Chakraborty;Bertil Schmidt;Weiguo Liu;Unmesh D. Bordoloi

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Singapore;National University of Singapore;UNSW Asia, Singapore;Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;National University of Singapore

  • Venue:
  • RTCSA '07 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we explore the possibility of using commodity graphics processing units (GPUs) to speedup standard schedulability analysis algorithms. Our long-term goal is to exploit GPUs to accelerate common electronic design automation algorithms, most of which tend to be computationally expensive. Our main contribution in this paper is a reformulation of a standard demand bound criteria-based schedulability analysis algorithm as a streaming algorithm expressed in terms of computer graphics primitives. This allows the algorithm to be efficiently implemented on a GPU, thereby resulting in very attractive speedups.