Courier: A Domain Specific Language and Toolchain for Runtime Binary Acceleration

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• Takaaki Miyajima, Keio University, Japan
• Friday 23 March 2012, 13:00-14:00
• Mahanakorn Conference room, level 9.

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Computationally intensive applications can be off-loaded to FPG As and GPUs to reduce execution time. However, choosing an accelerator, estimating execution time and implementing an application on it requires many separate tools and process of trial and error, is a time-consuming and specialized task. Furthermore, extracting and utilizing system-level parallelism as well as low-level parallelism is also essential. This paper presents Courier, a toolchain and a domain specific language for Binary Acceleration: extracting dataflow from a running software binary file, exploring the off-loaded execution time on accelerator, and then accelerating the original binary. By utilizing Courier, both expert users and non-expert users can easily extract system-level parallelism, and decide which part should be off-loaded to accelerators in a mixed software-hardware environment, without needing source code or accelerator expertise.

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