PTask: operating system abstractions to manage GPUs as a Compute Devices
Motivation
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GPUs are prevalent
- Adept at data intensive computing
- Unusable apply to other domains
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GPU usage are challenging
- GPU & main memory disjoint
- Treated as device I/O by OS
Problem && Purposed Solution
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Problems
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- Simplex abstractions for GPUs
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- Redundancy for cross-process or cross-device communication requires more data migration
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- Solutions
Related Work
Future Work && Conclusion
A new world is opened
start simple and refine careful.