Library Support for Resource Constrained Accelerators

摘要

Accelerators, and other resource constrained systems, are increasingly being used in computer systems. Accelerators provide power efficient performance and often provide a shared memory model. However, it is a challenge to map feature rich APIs, such as OpenMP, to resource constrained systems. In this paper, we present a lightweight system where an accelerator can remotely execute library functions on a host processor. The implementation takes up 750 bytes but can replace arbitrary library calls leading to significant savings in memory foot print. We evaluate with a set of SPLASH-2 applications and show that the impact on execution time is negligible when compared to GCCs OpenMP implementation.