The Case for Performance Interfaces for Hardware Accelerators
Rishabh Iyer, J.L. Ma, Katerina Argyraki, George Candea, Sylvia Ratnasamy · 2023
While systems designers are increasingly turning to hardware accelerators for performance gains, realizing these gains is painstaking and error-prone. It can take several person-months to determine if a given accelerator is a good fit for a given piece of code, and accelerators that cost millions of dollars to build can slow down the very systems they were designed to accelerate.