Fri 17 Jun 2022 10:40 - 11:00 at Kon-Tiki - Hardware I Chair(s): Clément Pit-Claudel
Fri 17 Jun 2022 22:40 - 23:00 at Kon-Tiki - Hardware I

Specialized hardware accelerators continue to be a source of performance improvement. However, such specialization comes at a programming price. The fundamental issue is that of a {\em mismatch} between the diversity of user code and the functionality of fixed hardware, limiting its wider uptake.

Here we focus on a particular set of accelerators: those for Fast Fourier Transforms. We present FACC (Fourier ACcelerator Compiler), a novel approach to automatically map legacy code to Fourier Transform accelerators. It automatically generates drop-in replacement adapters using Input-Output (IO)-based program synthesis that bridge the gap between user code and accelerators. We apply FACC to unmodified GitHub C programs of varying complexity and compare against two existing approaches. We target FACC to a high-performance library, FFTW, and two hardware accelerators, the NXP PowerQuad and the Analog Devices FFTA, and demonstrate mean speedups of 9x, 17x and 27x respectively.

Fri 17 Jun

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10:40 - 12:00
Hardware IPLDI at Kon-Tiki +12h
Chair(s): Clément Pit-Claudel EPFL, AWS
10:40
20m
Talk
Bind the Gap: Compiling Real Software to Hardware FFT Accelerators
PLDI
Jackson Woodruff University of Edinburgh, Jordi Armengol-Estapé University of Edinburgh, Sam Ainsworth University of Edinburgh, UK, Michael F. P. O'Boyle University of Edinburgh
DOI
11:00
20m
Talk
Exocompilation for Productive Programming of Hardware Accelerators
PLDI
Yuka Ikarashi MIT, Gilbert Bernstein University of California at Berkeley, Alex Reinking UC Berkeley, Hasan Genc UC Berkeley, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley MIT
DOI
11:20
20m
Talk
PDL: A High-Level Hardware Design Language for Pipelined Processors
PLDI
Drew Zagieboylo Cornell University, Charles Sherk Cornell University, G. Edward Suh Cornell University / Facebook, Andrew Myers Cornell University
DOI
11:40
20m
Talk
WARio: Efficient Code Generation for Intermittent Computing
PLDI
Vito Kortbeek Delft University of Technology, Souradip Ghosh Carnegie Mellon University, Josiah Hester Northwestern University, Simone Campanoni Northwestern University, USA, Przemysław Pawełczak Delft University of Technology
DOI Pre-print
22:40 - 00:00
Hardware IPLDI at Kon-Tiki
22:40
20m
Talk
Bind the Gap: Compiling Real Software to Hardware FFT Accelerators
PLDI
Jackson Woodruff University of Edinburgh, Jordi Armengol-Estapé University of Edinburgh, Sam Ainsworth University of Edinburgh, UK, Michael F. P. O'Boyle University of Edinburgh
DOI
23:00
20m
Talk
Exocompilation for Productive Programming of Hardware Accelerators
PLDI
Yuka Ikarashi MIT, Gilbert Bernstein University of California at Berkeley, Alex Reinking UC Berkeley, Hasan Genc UC Berkeley, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley MIT
DOI
23:20
20m
Talk
PDL: A High-Level Hardware Design Language for Pipelined Processors
PLDI
Drew Zagieboylo Cornell University, Charles Sherk Cornell University, G. Edward Suh Cornell University / Facebook, Andrew Myers Cornell University
DOI
23:40
20m
Talk
WARio: Efficient Code Generation for Intermittent Computing
PLDI
Vito Kortbeek Delft University of Technology, Souradip Ghosh Carnegie Mellon University, Josiah Hester Northwestern University, Simone Campanoni Northwestern University, USA, Przemysław Pawełczak Delft University of Technology
DOI Pre-print