A study of recent contributions on performance and simulation techniques for accelerator devices
Hussein Ajam, Michael Opoku Agyeman · 2017
High performance computing platform is moving from homogeneous individual unites to heterogeneous systems. Where each unit is a combination of homogeneous cores and accelerator devices. Accelerator s uch as GPUs, FPGAs, DSPs, these devices usually designed for the specific and intensive type of computing tasks. The presence of these devices have created fresh and attractive development platforms for developers and designers, brand new performance analysis frameworks and optimization tools. This is the cutting edge in the performance of some accelerator devices like GPUs and Intel's Xeon Phi. We outline some of the existing heterogeneous systems and their development frameworks. The core of this study is a review of performance modeling of these devices. In this paper, we address the emerging issues that affect the performance of these devices and associated techniques employed for simulation and evaluation.