Verifying GPU kernels by test amplification

Alan Leung, Manish Gupta, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh Gupta, Ranjit Jhala, Sorin Lerner
2012 SIGPLAN notices  
We present a novel technique for verifying properties of data parallel GPU programs via test amplification. The key insight behind our work is that we can use the technique of static information flow to amplify the result of a single test execution over the set of all inputs and interleavings that affect the property being verified. We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of test amplification for verifying race-freedom and determinism over a large number of standard GPU kernels, by
more » ... that the result of verifying a single dynamic execution can be amplified over the massive space of possible data inputs and thread interleavings.
doi:10.1145/2345156.2254110 fatcat:vgqmukzlm5dw5baq6jll3rvzpm