Peruse and Profit
Snehasish Kumar, Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, Amirali Sharifian, William Nick Sumner, Arrvindh Shriraman · 2016
There exist a multitude of execution models available today for a developer to target. The choices vary from general purpose processors to fixed-function hardware accelerators with a large number of variations in-between. There is a growing demand to assess the potential benefits of porting or rewriting an application to a target architecture in order to fully exploit the benefits of performance and/or energy efficiency offered by such targets. However, as a first step of this process, it is necessary to determine whether the application has characteristics suitable for acceleration.