Accelerator-Rich Architectures

Jason Cong, Mohammad Ali Ghodrat, Michael Gill, Beayna Grigorian, Karthik Gururaj, Glenn Reinman
2014 Proceedings of the The 51st Annual Design Automation Conference on Design Automation Conference - DAC '14  
To drastically improve energy efficiency, we believe future processors need to go beyond parallelization and provide architecture support for customization, enabling systems to adapt to different application domains. In particular, we believe future architectures will make extensive use of accelerators to significantly reduce energy consumption. Such architectures present many new challenges and opportunities, such as accelerator synthesis, scheduling, sharing, virtualization, memory hierarchy
more » ... ptimization, and efficient compilation and runtime support. With respect to these areas, we review the progress of our research in the Center for Domain-Specific Computing (supported by the NSF Expeditionsin-Computing Award), and discuss ongoing work and additional challenges.
doi:10.1145/2593069.2596667 dblp:conf/dac/CongGGGGR14 fatcat:orli5tsdhbh3jke4bd3xwyl6ta