Evaluation of autoparallelization toolkits for commodity graphics hardware
Williams, David, Valeriu Codreanu, Po Yang, Baoquan Liu, Feng Dong, Burhan Yasar, Babak Mahdian, Alessandro Chiarini, Xia Zhao, Jos B. T. M. Roerdink · 2013
In this paper we evaluate the performance of the OpenACC and Mint toolkits against C and CUDA implementations of the standard PolyBench test suite. Our analysis reveals that performance is similar in many cases, but that a certain set of code constructs impede the ability of Mint to generate optimal code. We then present some small improvements which we integrate into our own GPSME toolkit (which is derived from Mint) and show that our toolkit now out-performs OpenACC in the majority of tests.