Tradeoffs in designing accelerator architectures for visual computing

  • Authors:
  • Aqeel Mahesri;Daniel Johnson;Neal Crago;Sanjay J. Patel

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 41st annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Visualization, interaction, and simulation (VIS) constitute a class of applications that is growing in importance. This class includes applications such as graphics rendering, video encoding, simulation, and computer vision. These applications are ideally suited for accelerators because of their parallelizability and demand for high throughput. We compile a benchmark suite, VISBench, to serve as a proxy for this application class.