Power Reduction of Automatic Heterogeneous Device Offloading

Abstract

In recent years, utilization of heterogeneous hardware other than small core CPU such as GPU, FPGA or many core CPU is increasing. However, when using heterogeneous hardware, barriers of technical skills such as CUDA are high. Based on that, I have proposed environment-adaptive software that enables automatic conversion, configuration, and high performance and low power operation of once written code, according to the hardware to be placed. I also have verified performance improvement of automatic GPU and FPGA offloading so far. In this paper, I verify low power operation with environment adaptation by confirming power utilization after automatic offloading. I compare Watt*seconds of existing applications after automatic offloading with the case of CPU only processing.