Accelerator-level Parallelism

Understand

Future applications demand more performance, but technology advances have been faltering.

• A promising approach to further improve computer system performance under energy constraints is to employ hardware accelerators.
• Already today, mobile systems concurrently employ multiple accelerators in what we call accelerator-level parallelism (ALP).
• To spread the benefits of ALP more broadly, we charge computer scientists to develop the science needed to best achieve the performance and cost goals of ALP hardware and software.