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Efficient GPU thread mapping on embedded 2D fractals
DOI:10.1016/j.future.2020.07.006.png)
Abstract
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This work proposes a new approach for mapping GPU threads onto a family of discrete embedded 2D fractals. A block-space map lambda : Z(E)(2) -> Z(F)(2) is proposed, from Euclidean parallel space E to embedded fractal space F, that maps in O(log(2)log(2)(n)) time and uses no more than O(n(H)) threads with H being the Hausdorff dimension of the fractal, making it parallel space efficient. When compared to a bounding-box (BB) approach, lambda(omega) offers a sub-exponential improvement in parallel space and a monotonically increasing speedup n >= n(0). The Sierpinski gasket fractal is used as a particular case study and the experimental performance results show that lambda(omega) reaches up to 9 x of speedup over the bounding-box approach. A tensor-core based implementation of lambda(omega) is also proposed for modern GPUs, providing up to similar to 40% of extra performance. The results obtained in this work show that doing efficient GPU thread mapping on fractal domains can significantly improve the performance of several applications that work with this type of geometry. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
GPU computing
Thread mapping
Tensor cores
Discrete embedded 2D fractals
Block-space fractal domains
Sierpinski gasket
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